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To: Shea Jones who wrote (21607)	4/26/1999 11:38:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (3) of 74651

Cool! I guess that I and Toy Soldier must be famous by now! Ok, here's my advice to the certain executives: 1) Jackson is separating the factual ruling from the legal ones. If the factual rulings support Microsoft, then there is no legal basis for anything. In that case, it would be unfair to Microsoft to not just let you off the hook immediately by a simultaneous legal ruling. Hence, the fact that Jackson is separating the rulings means that he is going to rule against you. 2) There are no TKO's and no winning on points in a high-profile case. You all look really bad in the eyes of the observers of the case. Therefore, you will lose the case. End of story. Jackson will simply discount countervailing testimony by your executives as not credible. So you will lose all the facts (unreversable by the appeal's court) and the law will naturally follow. 3) The correct thing to do when you lose a big case is to blame your lawyer. The honorable thing for a lawyer who loses a big case to do is to take the blame. Your in-house lawyers were especially bad: if they can't tell Bill Gates to behave, then they are not doing their job. They're supposed to be lawyers, not consiglieri. Get rid of them, and publically. Keep Sullivan and Cromwell, which will help stability, PR, and make Washington more open to dealing with you. Any other questions (tee hee) send me a message.

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