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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (15898)	1/7/1998 8:44:00 PM
From: Dermot Burke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

I like these guys wired.com Netscape has gotten confused.Barksdle went overboard on the hiring binge.They should have stayed lean and virtual.There was no need for the expensive overhead.They need to do all the website /yahoo/freemail stuff,dump 2/3 of the bodies and act the part that was laid out for them: distribute internet software from a website,avoid the expensive physical facilities trap and offer the slimmest,best browser ,free. The last thing I can tolerate is something akin to the apple faithful waiting fervently for the glitter to return. I just don't see visible leadership at Netscape when it is obviously needed.The insiders got rich, maybe that's all this was about anyway. Anyone see an upside to this one?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (15898)	1/8/1998 9:59:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 24154

Microsoft's 'monopolies' spur competition seattletimes.com Oh dear, an opposition viewpoint, making the rounds of op-ed pages. Originated at the Washington Post, that liberal rag from that den of iniquity, our nation's capital. On Monday, showed up in the Boston Globe. Yesterday, it hits the home town paper. The last two both made it to the news.com "other stories" list, I don't know if that means nobody read the article there or if they're just hard up for pieces sympathetic to Microsoft. And why don't they pick things up from the Post in the first place? Anyway, to expand the horizons of the "Chrysler car radio"/"Just like Disk Defrag" defense line crowd, here's some new ones: Even if Microsoft has indeed ''tied'' two separate products in a single sale, the so-called tie-in is little different from packaging tires with automobiles, cream with coffee, laces with shoes, even left gloves with right gloves. Or, to paraphase Carly Simon, "I had IE, there were clouds in my coffee... ". Bill Gates is Warren Beatty! Or should that be vice versa, in the inevitable miniseries? (just kidding about the last one, it's probably pretty evitable). In case anyone was wondering where this really came from, the credit is clear: Robert A. Levy is senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute. I don't know, I think Microsoft has to break out beyond Libertarian/Objectivist circles if it wants to carry the day on the hearts and minds or political fronts. Legally, I don't think those circles carry much weight either. Cheers, Dan