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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (15233)	12/20/1997 3:41:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

First, as an academic, it's natural that he would be skeptical of private and market-based power. But Jerry, he's a credentialed, pedigreed, Chicago School academic!:-) (I'm trying to hum the school song, but can't remember it for the life of me). To me, that's what makes the Special Master so Special, if he could hold his own there, I imagine he's been hit with a lot of the "free market" counterarguments, by people a lot better versed in the theory than anyone around here (well, except maybe Regimond, he knows everything:-)), and held his own. Plus, clerked for Scalia, sheesh. And, with respect to the post you responded to, I'll repeat myself ad nauseum as usual. Yes, it's unfair that antitrust only applies to monopolists (except MLB), but that's life. Like I used to say to Chaz/Sal about Sun and Java, we'll worry about that if and when the next monopolistic death grip happens. Not that I expect repetition will make any difference. I appreciate your digging into this stuff, I never got very far into the legal stuff, and in-house counsel is somewhat chagrined that after a week of messing around with computer parts I'm back to my Bill obsession. She just, um, quitely cajoled me to get back to bed. Me, I'm more into following the hearts and minds thing, and of course enjoying the exposition of the Ballmer/Regimond school of ethics, courtesy, humor, and other good things in life. Cheers, Dan.

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (15233)	12/20/1997 9:17:00 AM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 24154

To be absolutely honest Gerald, unless teh government puts MSFT out of business, they will not sway the tide of Internet business the way I see it. My sites stats (average of about 32,000 unique visitors per month), have shown IE ahead of NAV for a bout a month and a half now. My site draws a VERY high end clientele, the typ who usually set the trend for a LOT of high tech buying (institutional finance). The rate of IE adooption is also very, very quick, (about 8-11% per month). The rate of adoption of 4.0 vs. 3.0 browsers is much higher than NSCP's and the absolute amount adopted is also higher than NSCP's. The randon querying that I do among the downtown financial and consulting houses reveal the same. This means that IE is becoming the dominant browser for business users - the guys that spend the moulah (It has already become the dominant browser on my site by one or two percentage points, but that is not a scientific sampling), MSFT's new technology is adopted at a faster rate, and more of MSFT's newer technology is in consumers hands than that of NSCP. The market seems to be demanding the IE4 product. The governemnt cannot legislate the market, only the market participants and thier actions. I for one would buy IE 4 regardless, an upward of 50% of the banker types are adopting the same opinion.