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To: Catcher who wrote (31241)	10/28/1999 11:59:00 AM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

Catcher: That has been the fallacy of this entire proceeding. Companies are using the courts through Jackson to gain a competitive advantage that they could not otherwise gain in the marketplace. They have used the forward speculation of what MSFT might do in their natural hegemony to damage the consumer. In the meantime consumers and developers alike have benefitted by the benign manner manner in which MSFT has handled their position of quasi-monopoly. To their credit they have taken great pains to make new O/S's pretty much backwardly compatible with older devices and applications and have always offered their product at a reasonable price while maintaining an accepted standard that resulted in relatively inexpensive peripherals and application software of all types. JFD

To: Catcher who wrote (31241)	10/28/1999 5:55:00 PM
From: Frank Ellis Morris	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74651

>>i hope the judge is reading these articles re intel, compaq, aol, dell & linux lining up strategies against msft. course, if the red flag hasn't already gone up for him, it probably never will. the gall that companies like aol exhibit when crying on one hand and competing on the other is amazing. i would have thought they would wait till after verdict to announce stuff like this<< It just go to show you how screwed up things are. Where the hell is the justice? Why was the verdict postponed tomorrow.?? If the judge comes back with a bad verdict against Microsoft people are going to be screaming in the streets. Frank