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To: Lynn who wrote (27661)	2/12/2000 12:21:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 64865

Lynn - that explains the line item on MSFT's last quarterly report under "extraordinary expenses" NMTD purchase - $140M LDBG purchase - $190M Since neither is a listed security, I assume that this represents 10 million pints of nematodes (or 700 trillion actual nematodes) and 10 million pints of ladybugs - actual quantity of ladybugs TBD... Which should guarantee that Win2K is bug free, right???

To: Lynn who wrote (27661)	2/12/2000 12:36:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Well, apparently you can get REAL bugs for less money, not to mention a real operating system for free. Allchin after asking "would you pay $500 for an operating system with 63,000 bugs?" may have done well by asking the control question, "would you pay $500 for an operating system?" -JCJ