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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (13621)	10/23/1997 11:54:00 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Respond to of 24154

A couple days ago somebody asked me if I day-traded my recent Netscape purchase. I sold it yesterday (at 38) based on the dissapointing sequential product revenue numbers reported Tuesday night. Netscape still looks sold out to me, but based on these results I think Sal is right...there are better things to own for now. Not that anyone really cares about my trading. I'm just keeping Regimond honest.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (13621)	10/24/1997 12:07:00 AM
From: damniseedemons	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Dan, Microsoft owns Windows, and they believe they have the right to "keep it whole," maintain the integrity of "the Windows experience," blah blah blah. And, they do! The gray area here, as you know, is if IE is Windows. You don't agree with Microsoft--that's fine, as well as irrelevant.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (13621)	10/24/1997 12:25:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Compaq wasn't deleting IE, they were just ruining the Windows Experience by taking the icon off the desktop. Well, then, here's what may be a problem for DOJ: if Compaq never actually tried to remove IE from the machine, how is the fact that Microsoft threatened to cancel their license proof that it conditions granting of the Windows license upon the inclusion of IE on the machine? Putting the IE icon on the desktop of a machine that has IE and keeping IE on the machine are two very different things. On the "integrity and uniformity of the Windows Experience": I don't have a problem with Microsoft trying to maintain the integrity of their products, as a general proposition. Every compnay does it, and every company has the right to do it. Where problems arise for me is when the effort to maintain that integrity crosses the line from legal to illegal, from marketing to illegal monopolization.