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To: werefrog who wrote (45191)	5/24/2000 11:27:00 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Respond to of 74651

Jackson will be weighing the government's breakup proposal against Microsoft's, which would merely restrict its business practices. The judge is not obliged to accept either proposal, wholly or in part. Rich Gray, an intellectual property attorney with Outside General Counsel Silicon Valley in Menlo Park, Calif., said there is another possibility, similar to the movie "The Verdict," where at the end of the trial the jury asks the judge if it can award more damages than the plaintiff sought. "The equivalent of that moment for Microsoft's attorneys would be if Judge Jackson came in and said, 'I think the government's approach is too lenient, and I agree with the Brookings Institution on where we go from here," Gray said. Brookings Institution fellow Robert Litan has advocated a more serious remedy of breaking Microsoft into four companies, or "baby Bills," with three devoted to the Windows family. news.cnet.com