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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (15072)	12/18/1997 11:21:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Well, Mr. antitrust expert, there was this posted by Mike Assad here: Experts: Microsoft has little chance with appeal infoworld.com I don't know who the guys cited in the story are, but I give their opinion a lot more weight than yours, since yours seems to be based mostly on admiration for Neukom's prose style or something. Or maybe you, like Reg, just know that Microsoft is always right. Or maybe Rand enters into this somehow. I know, it's all hot air, you've read Microsoft's position and if somebody doesn't take it apart point by point, Microsoft rules. If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit. Tell it to the judge. As I understand it, on appeal Microsoft is the one that has to do the convincing. Cheers, Dan.

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (15072)	12/19/1997 4:34:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Here's one: sjmercury.com It said the Justice Department's complaint seeks to impose the government into the software design process, which Microsoft called a dangerous precedent. It also said the case should have ended when the judge failed to find Microsoft in civil contempt, as the Justice Department had asked. Instead, Neukom said Jackson had taken it upon himself, improperly, to expand the scope of the case from a contract dispute to a full-blown antitrust action. But antitrust attorneys said Jackson, known as a conservative and deliberate jurist, had taken no extraordinary steps in issuing the injunction nor in appointing a special master to determine disputed facts in the case and report to him by May 31. ''Microsoft is trying to portray this problem as a judge going out on his own and making it an antitrust case, and that's not the case,'' said Kevin Arquit, an attorney with Rogers and Wells in New York and a former antitrust official with the Federal Trade Commission. ''The government did ask for a permanent injunction. This isn't anything unusual.''