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To: drmorgan who wrote (14122)	11/14/1997 8:36:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

On Gates and the "witch hunt"- Yeah, and I got to play my little part in the electronic lynching too. I would be failing my ilkish duties to do otherwise. From zdnet.com Gates expressed appreciation for the support shareholders are giving Microsoft.[That's you, Gene] "We think it's great that many shareholders are speaking out on our behalf," he said. "When we have a witch hunt -- which this is -- it's nice to see the owners -- which you are -- speaking out on our behalf." Right, Bill, it's so unfair. Or, as Charles Cooper said, "So it goes. But then Microsoft, from the Big Man on down, strikes a wounded pose as if to say, 'Ohmygod, how could anybody say that about us?' when everyone damned well knows the score. (from zdnet.com Back to Bill: On the Department of Justice front, Gates said he was "confident the legal system will protect Microsoft's right to compete." But he noted that "we find it highly ironic that browsers are seen as a threat to operating systems, [yet] we're told not to put the browser in our product." Irony abounds in the world these days. IE has all these "product managers", or maybe they got a new title in line with the current action. Integration Managers? Civil Rights Specialists? With the Roach Motel California of browsers, the problem is getting it out, if you're not particulary interested in ceding your machine to Bill. I mean, my naive reading is that the big problem with the Windows Experience is unreliability. What better way to improve reliability than to entangle the OS with 20 meg or so of what should be application code? Integrity and uniformity, right. It's a well known fact the users were clamoring for browser integration, Bill's just giving them what they want. Killing Netscape, preserving the monopolistic death grip, "embracing and demolishing" the internet, none of that has anything to do with it. Oops, pardon the rhetorical excess, I sometimes get a little moronic on my mission. Cheers, Dan.