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To: Scotsman who wrote (6983)	5/12/1998 11:12:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (1) of 74651

NSCP ----I'm not thinking THAT far ahead Few people remember that the original judge on the MSFT consent decree case refused to sign his name to the deal DOJ made with MSFT a few years ago. It smelled so bad he wouldn't sign it!!! So DOJ had to go to the Appeals Court to compel him to sign it. I just read the new Appeals Court ruling on not extending the consent decree to Win98. They mention that DOJ didn't even set forth any arguments on integration and seemed to have little understanding of what it wanted to do with Win98. The ruling says that WIn98 is an integrated product. (Gosh I didn't know that, I guess those judges really do understand software...or they throw darts at the wall...) So DOJ will have to abandon its consent decree farce. They look so pathetic having given Bill this gift and then watching him shove it down their throats. Nothing is left for them but to file a general Sherman anti-trust action and start behaving like they still know what enforcing the law means. In any case I'm looking for MSFT to move up. Win98 will be released and any new anti-trust case will take time to take a toll on MSFT's profits.

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