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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (19411)	5/19/1998 10:54:00 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (1) of 24154

Regimond, You are confused by the facts. You're too close to (or too awed by) Microsoft to think objectively. The government isn't telling Microsoft how to design software, or not to innovate. That's (obviously) all Microsoft's PR spin. Per-processor pricing on Office? Didn't they sign a consent degree on that one for Windows back in '94? I recently bought a new Dell, and asked them to delete Office 97 from the order, since I already have a license I bought for my former machine, but no way. No credit. I paid for another copy of Office 97 I didn't want or need...at any price. Microsoft is still free to make any kind of software applications it wants. What it cannot do is leverage a monopoly to force distribution. If Boeing bought (or licensed design plans from) Pratt & Whitney and then legislated that all 7x7's be outfitted solely with Boeing engines (or "priced to include" Boeing engines), you can bet the DOJ would be all over them in a heartbeat. That's not telling Boeing how to engineer airplanes, that's keeping Boeing from exercising monopoly power to stifle innovation in aeronautical engineering. Many of us spent 1996 trying to explain all this to you here. Microsoft got greedy. Microsoft screwed up. They reacted to Netscape's challenge in a negative fashion. Microsoft exists entirely by the grace of the law and must operate within the law...no matter how important they consider their mission to be.

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