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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (19798)	5/28/1998 1:49:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) of 24154

Sure Reggie, but you didn't answer my, er, substantial objection. To repeat for those who missed it: You wrote: VBA is freely licensed to third parties who are actually encouraged to integrate it into thier apps, thereby eliinating the need to recode much of MSFT's end users proprietary technology. To which I replied: There was a story a year ago or so, where Corel heard about this "freely licensed" best thing since sliced bread VBA technology, and called Redmond about getting this "free license" that everybody else was getting. To them, the cost was a cool $50million. So, is this "freely licensed" business another one of these Mind of Reg(TM) things? Is it not to be taken literally, like the $30billion employee buyout business? (that last assuming, of course, that Microsoft employees actually had $30billion in options) You got a nice pontifical style rolling again, it's easy to argue when your points are by definition true and everybody else's are "out of context" or whatever. Newcomers might get confused. Cheers, Dan.

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