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To: Al Bearse who wrote ()	4/2/2000 2:49:00 PM
From: Don Edgerton	Read Replies (6) of 74651

Now, I propose Microsoft implement its own remedies which will do what Greespan and Abby Joseph have attempted to do. MS should cancel all licenses to install Windows by resellers. It can then renegotiate by raising the prices to $200 per copy to pay for potential litigation costs. However, it should draw out the renegotiation process except for DEll who didn't sink to the level of others to testify against MS. It should terminate all corporate multiuser licenses including those used by the US government and force them to buy single copies. It should aggressively prosecute any users including the state and Federal governments who continue to use MS products after the licenses have been terminated. It should raise the price of Windows at retail by double to pay for the costs of litigation (a la cig makers) This action will slow the economy by effectively shutting down the consumer PC market. It will create much more work for lawyers for the prosecution and defense of software pirates. The deficit and inflation will reoccur as the economy slows and the price of PCs skyrocket. The DOW will crash as the shares of MS,IBM,HWP tumble. NASDAQ will follow. And the wealth effect will be effectively cancelled to Greenspan's delight.

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