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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (41143)	4/5/2000 2:16:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Duke - The exclusionary practices and other questionable licensing and contract conduct was a big topic of discussion in before the original consent decree. MSFT pretty much abandoned those practices... WCS found some of the language about this in the consent decree. This was not an issue in the current litigation, but was clearly part of the MSFT business approach in the years leading up to the first consent decree. At the time they were doing it, this was routine practice for lots of companies. MSFT apparently did not consider the fact that they had to act differently than everyone else because of their dominant position. In any event I believe that they did abandon those practices and in general abided by the terms of the consent decree.