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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (15138)	12/19/1997 3:24:00 PM
From: John Donahoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

RE: "What the judge did was "disabled" IE. The DOJ petition did not request the disabling of IE, so this is irrelavant." Maybe MSFT is trying to manuever DOJ into explicitly stating that "disabling" meets the requirements of the consent decree. Sort of like brer rabbitt saying "please don't throw me in that briar patch." Machiavelli would be pleased. JD

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (15138)	12/19/1997 4:05:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Oh right, Reg. I apologize for making the mistake of actually responding to you here. I've posted my thoughts on the subject, along with a bevy of press reports. Lots of apps, Microsoft and otherwise, update lots of Windows DLL's. That's a problem, not a solution, as far as maintaining a stable system goes. Sorry, that was an attempt at a serious reply, which is of course unwarranted here. I'll just wait to be enlightened and entertained by Microsoft's chosen expert, come Jan. 13. Think Nathan will come and talk about those dirty tricks and the supersonic dinosaur tails too? Meanwhile, I apologize again for slipping up. Cheers, Dan.

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (15138)	12/19/1997 6:23:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Respond to of 24154

Reggie, "Win 95 has 14 million lines of code, that is a lot of potential interdependencies to make if you really wanted to. Imagine a programmer going through 14 million lines of legal citation in 90 seconds saying I have extracted 4 cases of irrelevance." Yeah, I can sympathize with the developers. Removing all those: IF (IE AND (!COMPETITOR)) DO THIS ELSE DO THAT segments would get tedious. Why didn't they just use the API's the rest of us are forced to use? I could pull NETSCAPE off without upsetting the balance of time and space, what does IE need that isn't in the API's available to everyone else? Makes me wonder... Wow, 14 million lines of code, more than the FAA needs to fly people to court and back. Windows95 must be what is considered "wide-body" software.