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To: Bearded One who wrote (19865)	6/2/1998 5:13:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	Read Replies (1) of 24154

[The press is an extremely important field of battle. Microsoft simply cannot win on technicalities. If they are perceived to have won on technicalities, then there will be popular approval for hurting Microsoft in some other way.] I had money in MSFT during the Apple suit and followed the press coverage then closely. It was very similar to that on the current suit. Apple was a very popular and sympathetic figure at the time, certainly more so than the government. I think it's the government that's arguing the technicalities. MSFT's shown flexibility on everything except the ability to control the design of their own product, hardly a technicality. In the appeals hearing the DOJ told the judge that MSFT would not be in violation if they had never shipped IE in a separate box. The judge's response: "How does that help the consumer? Why does that make sense?" It doesn't. [As far as having the icon removed being a weak position for the DOJ, well, you've got to be kidding. It was a huge loss for Microsoft.] Well, we strongly disagree. Time will tell.

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