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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (81241)	11/28/1999 5:01:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1572771

Jim, intel subscribes to the "What's good for general Bullmoose is good for the USA" doctine. Europeans have always been more spy sensitive than the Americans, so Intel underestimates this fear of spying. the truth of the matter is that tax evasion is far more pervasive in Europe than in the USA. This means that the ordinary person in Europe has far more to be paranoid about, thay are all working under the table for cash etc, in addition, they had the Nazis use records to murder their neighbours so they ahev no interest in any such scheme where people can be identified by their home computers over the internet. One would think that Grove would be sensitive to this. In addition most Eurpoean countries(esp the former east bloc) officially prosecute software copying and secretly permit it as most software is up to twice as much in Europe than in the USA and people have less money due to higher taxes and a far less efficient economy. Most people see the serial number as the beginning of annual software fees as well as a guaranty of authenticity that the client has a paid copy that can be linked to a transaction and to a CPU in a unique trackable manner.So they wink an eye at it and let Microsoft find a few cases from time to time and have a bulldozer photo opportunity. The $ outflow is the problem as they see software costs as US$ going away exacerbating the current acount deficits. Bill