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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (14945)	12/16/1997 2:13:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Sheesh, Jerry, this Special Master is beginning to sound very special indeed. Perhaps Microsoft has good reason to dig in and fight here. Not that it matters that much, the issues aren't going to go away, if they win a procedural victory here there will be a new procedure elsewhere. Lobotomize WIndows? I'd say it sounds better that a fatal neurological infection by the WIndows virus, or maybe it's a genetic disorder, I still haven't figured out this DNS/DNA thing. Some day, Microsoft will learn to be careful with its grandiose metaphors. Cheers, Dan.

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (14945)	12/16/1997 10:21:00 AM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Brilliant but what did you/Lessig say? Erudition without a grain of common sense is like the Emperor's new clothes.

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (14945)	12/17/1997 8:59:00 AM
From: mike iles	Respond to of 24154

Gerald, thanks for your posts from Lessig's writings and your comments on them ... does not bode well for the boys in Redmond. I thought they might not appeal at first because as someone on the thread so aptly put it that would just be adding more weight to the snowball that's rolling down on them, i.e. moving the debate more quickly into the foreground (Box 2?). And then you think about it and they have to appeal ... they have no choice. If this stands, it will undoubtedly broaden out ... it's the first chink in the armour, the beginning of the end of their business model. To me it's as plain as day that in the long run they can't win. When the President of the Phillipines went to Redmond to ask forgiveness on bended knee for having pirated the Evil Empire's software and BillG accepted his apologies and gave him a codal dispensation, well you got to wonder how this played in Washington ... pols may be many things but they ain't stupid when it comes to power ... and this was an interesting display in Redmond. regards, Mike