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To: vschoon who wrote (1565)	11/6/1999 8:14:00 AM
From: Mark Bartlett	Respond to of 1600

vshoon, <<Kind of ironic, the DOJ has posted the ruling in.. WordPerfect>> Well .... it is the better word processor - by far - and is this not what this action has been all about. MB

To: vschoon who wrote (1565)	11/6/1999 9:54:00 PM
From: Tom D	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Many government agencies, including HCFA, are standardized on Word Perfect. Can you blame them? I have to convert my documents from Word to pdf format (MSFT has made this conversion a pain in the A*S, not surprisingly) to transfer documents to HCFA . Tom D

To: vschoon who wrote (1565)	11/8/1999 10:28:00 AM
From: Conky Lives!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Looks like we're on course for an eventual United States Supreme Court decision. My guess is that it will be in 2002 after two rounds of appeals. Because a cash fine settlement would be ineffective and the company has a history of breaking agreements, we might see the company broken up. Here is my present guess at how the company should be divided: - consumer software (95/98/IE/Games etc) - business software (NT/Office/IE etc) - developer tools (VC/VB etc) - other