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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (45523)	5/27/2000 7:36:00 PM
From: SC	Respond to of 74651

Agreed. I think microsoft realized that they were not going to get favorable rulings about the time that the judge appointed Lawrence Lessig as his special master. From that time on they were simply trying to introduce as much favorable evidence into the trial record as they could for eventual appeal. I don't think they purposely tried to annoy the judge; but didn't worry whether or not they did when they wanted to present something to get it on record. They screwed up with the edited demo tape and Bill Gates made the mistake of thinking that he could be as slick as Bill Clinton in a deposition. Bill Gates is as slick a businessman as you will ever see, unfortunately he didn't realize that being a slick witness in a legal proceeding requires an entirely different set of insights that few people without a legal education possess. Steve

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (45523)	5/27/2000 8:11:00 PM
From: Thunder	Respond to of 74651

Jacob: I agree that it's not either and I don't think it was genuinely part of their strategy. What else can one expect from a TWX/AOL/NSCP piece. The impression I have is that TPJ was angered when Microsoft stepped into the courtroom on day one with this ludicrous notion of trying to defend itself in the Court of Law and perhaps long before. How arrogant of them. Regards, Gary

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (45523)	5/27/2000 10:08:00 PM
From: 10K a day	Respond to of 74651

It caught my eye...when i saw 9800 contracts... of the July 90 Puts...trade on MSQ. (I can't believe the number of PUT LEAP contracts going out to JAN 01 and JAN 02) Unbelievable... These are June00 Expiration Option Dollars: impristine.com (CALL$/PUT$) ALLR - 113K/427K AMZN - 3.8M/16M AOL - 16M/24M ARBA - 1.7M/7.9M ASKJ - 138K/191K ATHM - 668K/1.8M CMGI - 2.8M/50M EBAY - 4M/7M EGRP - 294K/2.9M INKT - 3/11M JDSU - 108M/141M JNPR - 3M/8M MSFT - 16M/42M QCOM - 19M/92M ************** QQQ - 34M/223M ************** RMBS - 5M/15M YHOO - 12M/36M