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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (22797)	3/1/1999 1:11:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) of 24154

Typical bit of managerial CYA email prose to me. First you say I absolutely am opposed to this, to your subordinate. Then you say, 'but you can do what you want.' Gets the responsibility off your back, you hope. If they disobey, you know who to start looking to get rid of. I have seen this a thousand times. No wise subordinate ever falls into the trap, unless there is a serious legal conflict involving his/her duties that make it impossible to obey. Go against the flow and end up gone. Might work in testimoney in this case, if everybody didn't know how Gates issues policy instructions at MSFT. It is perfectly clear that there is one opinion that matters at MSFT. Plus there are dozens of other emails, and the public statements of the officers that are on the record, plus the meeting notes of folks they negotiated with. MSFT arguing about all this just makes them look that much more like habituated liars. All this doesn't matter much. MSFT in reality hasn't had much of a defense they could put up, and they didn't. Chaz

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