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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (39837)	3/25/2000 7:30:00 PM
From: Hopkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Re:Why is our govt so wasteful of taxpayer's money? They think its their money to begin with, is why. I think its because they didn't have to earn it. I wouldn't be surprised if the reason for a failure to settle is money. Both the states and the Fed's probably want to extort money from MSFT and that's really all they ever wanted. HOPKINS

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (39837)	3/26/2000 6:28:00 AM
From: SunSpot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

If those three points should make a real difference, they are to be interpreted as: 2) Viewing source-code does not help anybody, unless they may copy it and sell modified versions without paying licenses to MSFT. Nice idea, but MSFT probably wouldn't agree. Without license-free copying, open source code doesn't matter anything to anybody except maybe MSFT... 3) Unbundling IE 5.0 is only effective, if: 1) It isn't distributed with Windows. 2) No HTML COM components are included with Windows. This includes the HTML help system and HTML support used in Microsoft Office. How much is Office worth without HTML support? As far as I see, there's only one way to go: Make some action, that will make MS Office compete on the market independently of Windows (and vice versa). This will quickly result in an MS Office for Linux, and better Linux application support in Windows. If this does not happen, MSFT still acts as a monopoly. The DOJ knows that. When it comes to MSIE dominance, I think MSFT screwed up the application so much (with XML based proprietary extensions etc) that standardized HTML is the way to go more and more.