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To: Edwarda who wrote (76970)	4/6/2000 8:10:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

That was so interesting , Edwarda, thank you! I think it's the first time I had a glimmer of what this was really about. (And it was clearly and well written, too!) penni

To: Edwarda who wrote (76970)	4/6/2000 8:27:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Went from SI to Quote.Com and found this in the morning update which tickled me having just read your post-- On an unrelated note, did anyone watch CNBC's coverage of the White House conference on the New Economy today? Was I the only one who found it ironic that Bill Gates was sitting next to President Clinton even as Janet Reno is attempting to tear down his empire? What do you think it was that kept Gates from lunging at Clinton and trying to strangle him? Personally, I think that they must have stationed a Secret Service agent with a shotgun under that table to keep a smile on Gate's face, because if I had that opportunity I would have been out of my seat faster than a guest on Jerry Springer.

To: Edwarda who wrote (76970)	4/6/2000 3:09:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Sorry, Father Terrence, but I have to chime in with Edwarda on this one. Remember this discussion we all had a couple of years ago? Message 4655750 For those interested, there have many lively and highly informative posts on the "How High Will Microsoft Fly?" thread re MS and BG as we may come to know them. Rambling on, I have long felt affinity with the "Microsoft, the Evil Empire" thread here at SI, but it seems to have gone dormant a while back. I also feel compelled to opine that I have less regard for our government and what it is doing at this point (emphasis on "at this point") than I have for Gates and his business practices. Methinks Gates did not have the gold worth the government going for in the early 1990s (I don't think he had even made his first billion then), and now he does. Of course, I could be wrong. Holly Drat, but I think I too have been assimilated.

To: Edwarda who wrote (76970)	4/6/2000 3:53:00 PM
From: Michael M	Respond to of 108807

Re Gary Kildall -- you snooze, you lose. If DOJ wants a piece of MSFT buttski, let 'em hit the company with a thousand dollar fine every time my screen informs me that windows is on strike. AND, fine Netscape (or, is it AOL now) a thousand dollars every time one of their GD noxious pop-up advertisements freezes up the works. I dare say that the evil empire of Bill Gates has created far more wealth, opportunity and productivity than Janet and Joel in their wettest of dreams. Protecting the consumer.....that was a good one. BTW, I have no trouble running Netscape on my windows machine. P.S. -- Scott McNealy is a big cry-baby. I'm 100 percent with Terrance (or Terrence?) on this one. M