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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (11610)	10/21/1998 7:44:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	Read Replies (2) of 74651

I believe MSFT will be able to show each of it's competitors engaged in precisely the behavior for which they are being "demonized". That's how the software industry works and it's how it MUST work. To be significantly useful to customers your wares must inter-operate with your competitors, and that means lots of "coopetition", sharing, cross licensing, and back-stabbing. This natural requirement makes it virtually impossible for any software company to guard a market advantage without moving forward. Whoever can move the fastest will win. That's exactly what's happening now and it's great for consumers. The DOJ doesn't get this. They fall back on "because others do it doesn't excuse MSFT's behavior". The higher courts, though, care that the precedents make sense as a whole, and the higher this goes the more discussion there will be of the silly paradoxes introduced by the DOJs pinko interpretation of the laws. There's going to be a lot less enthusiasm for this action as it becomes clear how hindered, litigious, and contorted the environment will be for ALL software companies under a pro-DOJ decision. What happened here is Barksdale bet the farm that MSFT couldn't keep up with "Internet time". He was wrong. The rest is whining. How 'bout those earnings? Wow.

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