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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (15274)	12/20/1997 11:04:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

Dan, Aren't these just detail quibbles? It seems that the longer MSFT gets us and the court to argue over the details, the more they have won. What is the best technical/business question here? I think it is this: Would it be relatively easy technically for Microsoft to produce operating systems and applications like browsers that are seperate. Separate in the sense of being modules you can purchase separately, and in the sense that the playing field has been leveled for their competition? How the DLLs and browsers and so on are bundled are just useful distractions (for MSFT.) The question is how to level the playing field. Now I say that people have been making operating systems without integrated browsers for a very long time. I say that putting network resources into the OS for all browser companies to share, perhaps even negotiating the API for that with those competitors, under government guidance, would be very easy. I say that from a technical standpoint the solution to all this is a no-brainer, slam-dunk, 'I could design it in my sleep', kind of solution. The government guidance would not be unprecedented. After all, the only reason we have either tcp/ip or the Internet is that the government took a hand in it previously. This would encourage competition and enlarge the consumers choices and accelerate our technology, most likely. So if it is within the power of the court to demand that this be done, then they should do it. Cheers, Chaz

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (15274)	12/21/1997 5:22:00 AM
From: Li Cai	Respond to of 24154

MSFT has many lawyers and good engineers, which will surely help it avoid the contempt charge. What I am afraid is that MSFT will not be permited to integrate IE in Window98, beside uninstall the Window95. However, the stock should be stable and bounce back soon.