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To: Tom C who wrote (33711)	11/11/1999 7:26:00 PM
From: JBTFD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Thanks for the response. It sounds like it would be a big detriment for developers (and thus computer users) if the Internet functionality (DLLs) were removed from the OS. Sorry to put it in a way that is a big DUH!? for those who understand, but I think (like you said) that the judge and probably most of the public dont understand the points in your post. Thanks again, Mark

To: Tom C who wrote (33711)	11/11/1999 7:51:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

Tom C: Thank you so much for your erudite exposition of what I have been trying to say all along here. It is too bad that MSFT's lawyers didn't have you along at the court house.I have been trying to convince the nay sayers that MSFT did not win by chicanery but by courting both the public and the third party developer by making it easy to develop applications that will work consistently in the Windows environment. If you ask developers what platform they find it easiest to write to I am sure they would say Windows. I have heard many developers complain that as well as having a smaller audience Mac is a difficult environment to deal with. Gates had the foresight to be the go between betwixt the thousands of creative 3rd party code writers and the public. JFD