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To: Bearded One who wrote (4373)12/18/1997 10:05:00 PM
From: SC  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 74651
 
Who do you think offers better compensation for legal services?
If you were one of the best, brightest and most experienced at your
specialty would you rather work for government wages or free market
wages?

sc



To: Bearded One who wrote (4373)12/19/1997 9:03:00 AM
From: David R. Colby  Respond to of 74651
 
You can have all the money in the world for research and marketing but how - if you have devised a marketing plan for Windows '95 years ago when it was first envisioned - do you factor the DOJ into that plan?
This I know: The longer this drags out the worse it will get for MSFT's marketing.
Now the vultures are flocking. The Texas Attorney General has drawn in other states. This is starting to have the appearance of a conspiricy against MSFT, one indefensable for even the biggest of coporations in our legal system. Or, perhaps better, as Gates said at the annual meeting, "A witch hunt."
Looks to me like the litiage side is building against MSFT. It's starting to resemble tobacco litigation all over again.



To: Bearded One who wrote (4373)12/19/1997 9:07:00 AM
From: Rich Goldsmith  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
Fur Face,

The US government has more money and more power.

Right!! And LA had more money and more power than OJ. Old legal saw, "It's better to be guilty and rich, than innocent and poor". MSFT will lose some money here on legal fees, but it will learn how to play the "Washington Power Game", so the in end MSFT wins big time.

Regards,

Rich



To: Bearded One who wrote (4373)12/19/1997 5:03:00 PM
From: PMS Witch  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
<US government has more money and more power>

Isn't the government up to it's eyeballs in debt? Will the citizens soon tire of sponsoring this witch-hunt so that a few pols keep their snouts in the trough after the next election.

MSFT has more patience and brains. Gates doesn't face voters in November. As for brains -- no contest. PW.

P.S. Definition of a court case: deciding who has hired the slickest lawyers.


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