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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (23616)	11/19/1999 2:26:00 PM
From: RTev	Respond to of 24154

Based on the judge's findings of fact, does Microsoft's monopoly power derive primarily from the applications barrier to entry or from the predatory conduct of its executives? The tone of the message suggests that you didn't really mean that as a question. So allow me first to make this statement: I'm not a lawyer, Gerald. I don't claim to have the knowledge of precedent or the deeply technical knowledge of the law that allows you and other lawyers to make the kinds of fine distinctions you're asking for here. I can read, however. Since even in a non-jury trial the experts and the lawyers try to explain the relevant law in ways that non-lawyers can understand, I can -- with help from news articles and messages like many of yours -- begin to make sense of much of this. It helps a bit (but only a bit) that I spent several years working for lawyers, trying to understand their obscure points so that I could find in my databases the testimony or documents they wanted for their pleadings. In this case, however, I don't understand the distinction you're making well enough to answer your question.