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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14635)	12/4/1997 5:02:00 PM
From: damniseedemons	Respond to of 24154

>Oh, I forgot, that's all SAP, everybody does it.> Just a word/plug from my sponsor: You should consider investing in SAP (SAPHY). Oh...but wait, Dan, you're still wussing out of buying those MSFT shares you punk!! They long-since announced that share buyback you were waiting for...!

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14635)	12/4/1997 5:04:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>>I'd say that's about right, even if the judge says I see what you meant about the judge now. I had thought the original Judge that the consent decree fight would go back to was Sporkin, not this guy that is being labeled a very bad judge by the press. Sporkin, I had missed knowing, was taken off the case when he lambasted the DOJ for negotiating such a weeny consent decree in the first place. Apparently he thought that was a miscarriage of justice so great that he had to speak up even knowing the appeals court muight remove him. This other judge is the one that was sitting on the bench when the consent decree was signed, so it goes back to him. And he is reputed to be very slow, which Microsoft has gotta love. However: 1. The DOJ is probably pretty red-faced about having done such a lame negotiation in the first place by now. They may not do that again, after all the criticism from such unexpected members of the Ilk as the WSJ and CNBC. 2. This judge seems to be a hanging judge at least when it came to certain prominent figures. It seems to me he doesn't like powerful public people misbehaving. That's an interesting trait. Also, he might be a little red faced at this point, too. After all, in the end that was his decree. 3. But on the other hand: Microsoft often uses these people like so many lab chimps. So who knows. Lawsuits, our new national spectator sport. Ain't it grand? Chaz