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To: uu who wrote (3643)	8/25/1997 4:53:00 PM
From: High-Tech East	of 64865

Forbes, 09/08/97, a fawning ode to the rich, rollicking, rambunctious, rude, runt from Redmond. Received my Forbes in the mail today. "Bill Gates and the Billophobes" featured on page 186 also at forbes.com It seems like the author created a story to fit a predetermined conclusion: "You can not beat Bill Gates and Microsoft so why try?" The only troublesome issue to me (long on SUNW) is the paragraph that reads, "Apple's change of allegiance is only one of McNealy's problems. Eager to make Microsoft a follower in Sun's Java parade, McNealy offered Microsoft a Java license. But Gates proved the better negotiator: Under the contract, Microsoft has the right to "improve" upon Java in any way it wishes. McNealy threatened to revoke the Java license if Microsoft makes changes to Java that render it incompatible with Sun's version. Micrsoft appears to have the upper hand here." I hope that is not close to being true. Your thoughts. Thanks. Ken

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