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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (13701)	10/25/1997 2:30:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Was that Bill Gates wincing at Agenda? infoworld.com For the irony/humor impaired, this is not serious. The taller guy, who I'll call Hugo, was spouting off as he thumbed through the trouser rack. "I thought it was a good conference. We got lucky with the Microsoft lawsuit going down while we were there. Lots of interesting insight into the workings of the bigger corporate machines." His short pal was obviously just along for the ride and looked wide-eyed around the store the way an upper-class kid seeing a housing project for the first time might. "Yeah. Did you hear Bill Gates when he was getting grilled about the Justice proceedings? He was very stiff. Very wary." "Yeah," Hugo said. "Made me think he was lying, that he was thinking, 'I'm not going to be able to squirm out this time.' I've seen him speak dozens of times, and he was way off his game." Shorty nodded. "Yeah, I agree. I mean, you know he has to be watching every single word, because they're right in the middle of litigation hell, but he usually keeps his calm under pressure." Hugo smirked a bit more. "Of course, Bill's more comfortable when he puts someone ELSE under pressure. I guess, that's what the suit is about." Shorty laughed. "That's right. It's clear that the public tide is against Microsoft now. But for me, the crowning moment was when someone asked Cisco's CEO John Chambers if he feared getting into big litigation like Microsoft. Take all the sugar coating off, and his answer goes: When you're mean like Microsoft, bad things happen; we're not mean, so I'm not worried." The evil ilksters make progress on the hearts and minds front. Cheers, Dan.