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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (23931)	5/3/2000 9:45:00 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Respond to of 24154

Dam- Re: Gates techno-sabotage. I was listening to a Terry Gross interview of an author who wrote a book about his experience of being a prison guard at NY's Sing Sing Prison. As a new guard he asked a more experienced guard about the prognosis for an inmate he thought had a lot of potential. The reply went "He'll be back. They all will. It's in their blood". I immediately thought of Bill Gates. Break up is the only solution. Harvey P.S. Sold my MSFT. Lost the commissions. Didn't jump fast enough.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (23931)	5/3/2000 12:52:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Sayings of Chairman Bill Salon.com salon.com Listen to Gates as he rails at the government's proposals: "Microsoft could never have developed Windows under these rules. We couldn't have developed Windows because without the great work of the Office team and the Windows team, it never would have come together." This statement should cause the jaws of anyone who has followed Microsoft's history to drop. For years the company insisted that the developers of Office's predecessor applications, like Word and Excel, worked in strict isolation from its operating system developers. Separated by a so-called Chinese wall from their operating-system colleagues, the application developers had access only to the same "application programming interface" (API) information that programmers at competing companies knew about. The division, Microsoft president Steve Ballmer declared, was "like the separation of church and state." Competitors complained that Microsoft kept information about "undocumented" APIs for itself, and that Microsoft programmers exploited special access to the operating system's innards. Microsoft said, "No way!" Now, Gates says, Windows wouldn't even exist without precisely such cross-team cooperation. ... The saddest thing about this situation is that it proves, in fact, that Microsoft's leaders really aren't very smart after all -- they're victims of their own emotions. Trapped in the psychological bunker of their own corporate culture, they keep driving themselves deeper into their legal hole -- when they could instead be making a reasonable case that the government's proposed remedies are full of holes.