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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (23608)	11/18/1999 8:19:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

For one, it narrowly characterizes the OS as software that controls Intel-based (a specific name brand??!!!) processors. That is ridiculous, but it has to be worded in such a fashion as to effectively attack MSFT. It is, indeed, a narrow definition and one that should give pause to several companies in the technology sector particularly AOL whose lawyers must have pointed out the danger of this definition to their own clients. But the judge does not merely assert the narrow definition. In the sections on "Demand Substitutability" and "The Possibility of Supply Responses", he addresses and rejects arguments for broadening the definition. Even if one judges the findings to be misguided, I think they deserve to be recognized as well-reasoned rather than "ridiculous". There will still be room for Microsoft's lawyers to make some interesting arguments in their response to the proposed rulings. They will probably continue to argue (as you have) that even if Microsoft holds "monopoly power" within this narrowly defined "market" that the demand substitutability from external markets so constrains that power that it cannot be considered a de jure monopoly.