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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18868)	5/2/1998 11:23:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) of 24154

Republican senators cross swords on Microsoft mercurycenter.com As one might guess, those would be probationary ilkist Orrin Hatch and Mr. Salvage Rider himself, Slade Gorton. Despite Mr. Goodman, I can't help but be amused. Hatch, his spokeswoman said, found it ''troubling that the target of an investigation might be using its relationship (with computer makers and others) to encourage (witnesses) to participate in a public relations campaign seemingly designed to frustrate legitimate efforts to enforce the laws.'' Gorton responded to his fellow Republican with unusual fury. He said through a spokesman he was ''completely outraged that the chairman of the Judiciary Committee would suggest that 26 high-tech CEOs should not be able to exercise their First Amendment rights rights and defend themselves against unwarranted intervention.'' Bwaaahahahahahaha. Who is it they're defending against "unwarranted intervention"? All those 26 CEO's find their companies under antitrust scrutiny at the moment? I heard something about Intel and the FTC. . . And he said that for Hatch to ''presume that he knows more about the high-tech industry and what they need than the 26 CEOS ... is nonsensical.'' And it's purely coincidental that that letter happened to be phrased like those Microsoft ads. Great minds all think alike. The executives wrote that their companies spent unspecified millions to develop and promote products that depend on Windows 98's launch, and warned: ''Government intervention into the launch of Windows 98 would endanger what we have all worked for -- and harm consumers and the economy too.'' That language echoed the text of newspaper ads Microsoft began running on April 22 that warned that government restrictions ''will not only affect the thousands of companies that make this industry so successful, but it will also affect millions of consumers and, eventually, the economy in general.'' (from nytimes.com Nothing random in that little act, as Bill would say. Cheers, Dan.

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