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To: Flair who wrote (15271)	12/20/1997 9:22:00 PM
From: Flair	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

John & all, An analysis from CNET Uninstalling IE in eye of user news.com Another article about Lessig pcworld.com A little different from what I heard about Lessig in this thread.

To: Flair who wrote (15271)	12/20/1997 9:29:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

The judge has his own semantics on "removing" and "disabling". He think it's the same as long as the "icon" does not show in the screen and a person cannot run IE if the "icon" is not showing. This is what he called "visual evidence" of "removing" IE. That's one point of view, as you say. Another point of view is that the Judge looked at the install/uninstall tab on the control panel and assumed those words had some kind of conventional meaning instead of a special Microsoftese definition for those pieces of software Microsoft deems important in its war on the internet. The Microsoft expert will no doubt explain the Judge's mistake to him, I'd advise said expert to be somewhat more respectful than the Microsoft-educated "computer experts" around here. Meanwhile, as I said, the appropriate ilk factions will have determined which of those 228 files might appropriately be called "part of the OS", in some non-Microsoftese sense, and which are "application code". And which are actually part of IE in any meaningful sense. The ilk ain't quite as stupid as Microsoft takes us to be. Cheers, Dan.

To: Flair who wrote (15271)	12/21/1997 4:38:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 24154

Sir you have a flair- Concur on all points. Merry Christmas

To: Flair who wrote (15271)	12/21/1997 6:36:00 PM
From: Michael L. Voorhees	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Flair: quit blowing smoke. Everyone should know that MSFT can untie IE in a heartbeat(what can be programmed can be unprogrammed or reprogrammed). And I am certain MSFT knows exactly how to untie it in short order. They just don't want to. The code for IE is modularly linked to the OS, so I am sure that it really is a simple matter to segregate if from the OS (at least at MSFT). These guys are the best snake oil and spin artists in business today. They aren't fooling anybody with any basic backgound in software development, however. It certainly seems that good lawyers and astute judges could pin these guys down for impeachment. I'd hate to be their expert witness no matter how good I was, he will be treading on very thin ice (impeachment).