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To: Flair who wrote (15284)	12/21/1997 3:30:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

You're welcome, of course. Sorry if I sounded harsh, I can never tell where newcomers here are coming from. But, like I said, I think the line that everybody is stupid but Microsoft, and they ain't telling what's in those 228 files, is fairly bogus. And if anybody thinks that ridiculing the Judge is going to help Microsoft as this case goes forward, they ought to explain why. I know, when you're dealing with Mighty Microsoft, it's incredibly naive to think that "uninstall" means uninstall. I think the Judge will catch on to Microsoftese soon enough, though. As far as the line between OS and application, no matter how much Microsoft tries to blur the issues, there are sensible things that can be said. I've tried my best to both post the news that says something about this, and to explain my own understanding. I welcome correction, as the structure of Windows is fairly mysterious to me, among others. But as far as the 228 files go, there's two possibilities. Either Microsoft is lying, or the browser software is purposely badly designed. I used to think the latter, but I'm sorta leaning toward the former now. At any rate, to repeat as usual, if Microsoft and its fellow travelers here think that dumping a list of 228 files, with no qualifications of what relation any of them have to Win95 or the browser (because it's all so complicated, nobody outside of Microsoft could possibly understand) is going to carry much weight in a court of law, well, I think you all deserve to be held in contempt, in the common English sense if not the legal sense. This computer stuff is sometimes made out to be more complicated than it is, it ain't quantum mechanics, and Microsoft has a history of fairly retrograde OS technology anyway. Cheers, Dan.