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To: Just_Observing who wrote (67422)	4/16/2002 2:30:58 PM
From: _scar_face_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

No different then all the plaintiffs witnesses. Is there news in between the lines somewhere?

To: Just_Observing who wrote (67422)	4/16/2002 3:15:15 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

JO: And the states went out and sought unbiased folks to give their opinions against MSFT. You are as bad as the dope Tom costello who was suggesting that Sanders was biased. It seems his points are all very valid. Do you have any rebuttal to these valid points. Or do you want to see all third party developers developing a Balkanized plethora of applications thus reducing their margins as they must divide development costs over a smaller run of product. Are you observing with a white cane? JFD

To: Just_Observing who wrote (67422)	4/16/2002 3:17:37 PM
From: David Howe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Yes, his testimony IS very compelling. He's telling the truth. The consumer and the computer industry will suffer great harm if the remedy is accepted. The State AG's are "crazy", or maybe they are paid to take these harmful actions. Whatever the case, they doing a massive injustice to the consumer. IMO, Dave Sanders said in written testimony that fragmenting the Windows operating system would set the computer industry back almost 20 years. A key demand of the states is for Microsoft to produce a stripped-down version of Windows that can be customized by computer manufacturers and competing software designers. VERSIONS OF WINDOWS Sanders said multiple versions of Windows would diminish competition as designers of software and devices that work with computers focused on just one of the versions. ``Any relief that would fragment the Microsoft Windows platform, and thereby impair the large compatibility benefits provided by that platform, would set the computer industry back almost 20 years, all at tremendous cost to consumers and to the national economy,'' Sanders said.