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To: nihil who wrote (28165)	2/23/2000 11:15:00 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Thanks for the chuckle.

To: nihil who wrote (28165)	2/23/2000 12:18:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

...or by te court forcing MSFT to open all windows to customer and competitor tampering. Yes! That's my personal favorite. It's not called 'competitor tampering' though. It's simply just proper documentation. For whatever reason, M$ hasn't been able to properly document their APIs. Publishing the source code will help others help M$ in that regard. Sun continues to be successful in excluding Windows from the high-end space. As well, Sun has been successful in excluding Hasbro. How do you think Sun's possible anti-trust exposure should affect Sun's strategy? See, this is the difference between Bill Gates (dropout) and Scott McNealy (graduate). Scotty did his Masters thesis on anti-trust law. Scott has said in the past that he looks forward to the day Sun is a monopoly like M$; that ultimately, it's a CEOs job to get there for the shareholders. We've got the incredible good fortune of having the exact right MBA at the helm. -JCJ

To: nihil who wrote (28165)	2/23/2000 12:20:00 PM
From: trouthead	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

No Message. Oops.

To: nihil who wrote (28165)	2/23/2000 12:49:00 PM
From: Mike Milde	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

<< I would not be surprised to see a MSFT private antitrust suit filed by MSFT (or one of its successor parts) if Sun continues to be successful in excluding Windows from the high-end space. >> I'm not sure I understand. You're comparing a hardware company to a software company. How has Sun excluded Microsoft from the high-end server market? As far as I know there have been no attempts by Microsoft to port Windows to high-end Sun servers, or any other large systems for that matter. Mike