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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (21124)10/25/1998 7:52:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
Hi Gerald, as Bearded One said, long time no post. The same point you make about selling versus giving away the browser seems to apply to the now infamous Jim Clark memo that Barksdale got slammed with. The situation in Dec. 94 was significantly different than in June '95.

The other thing about that meeting is Microsoft has said that Netscape's version is "fantastical" and an invention of Andreeson and all kinds of other wild smears, but they haven't offered any coherent version of their own, unless I missed something. Bill said something about telling Netscape about "cool new features in Windows95", before he went conveniently senile on the whole matter. He can't remember a thing about it anymore! But he wasn't much interested in the first place, so I guess that's consistent. I Anyway, as I've said elsewhere, the Netscape version of the meeting is consistent with many other accounts of Microsoft meetings with other companies. Also consistent with "standard Microsoft business practice", as glorified by many a Microphile, in any context but this one.

Our old friend Thomas Reardon was briefly on the witness list, he was at the meeting they say, but that only lasted a day. Some VP pulled rank on him or something.

Cheers, Dan.
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