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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (15381)	12/22/1997 7:36:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Which missive are you referring to?

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (15381)	12/22/1997 8:19:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Right, John, you are being substantive as usual, just like the local antitrust expert. What is your response to my hot air reply that, for things other than IE, install/uninstall means what one might think it means, you remove the program and you better have the disk if you want it back? The local antitrust expert weaseled off into procedural matters when that came up, what's your response? You seem to think it's quite the substantive issue. And, of course, for both you and the local antitrust expert, Microsoft is by default correct in its legal position, and it's up to others to prove them wrong. Microsoft may be correct, my naive and earnest high school civics education tells me it's up to the judges to decide, in such legal matters. Of course, they're all idiots, so there's no sense trying to explain the infinite complexity of this "OS/browser integration" thing to them, that 228 file list should suffice. The only admitted lawyer here thinks Microsoft may have a case, but also admits that he's been wrong in the past, and could be wrong in the future. You and Reg aren't troubled by such uncertainties, you just know who's right here. Could be, but like I said there's a lot of people not normally associated with the ilk who think they're playing this one wrong. But again, that's just hot air. And to the eternal question of what the customers want, according to Microsoft the unwashed masses want that grotty old retail Win95 that the OEMs won't touch. Nobody seems to want to take that one on either, but that's life. Must be more hot air, I guess. Cheers, Dan.