To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (16085 ) 1/14/1998 8:56:00 PM From: Schiz Respond to
Ralph Nader and a few other people were on cnn last night. I just caught the last few minutes. It seemed like Ralph was the only one saying anything bad about ms. There was a guy that said he used to work for Lotus, who had 90%? of the spreadsheet market and ms came out with excel, a far superior product and quickly destroyed Lotus. Do you think he actually beleives that? I wish I could have seen the whole show."I'd be very surprised if the court awarded any contempt fine," says San Francisco intellectual-property attorney Lawrence J. Siskind, who is not involved in the case. Siskind reasons that, because the over-arching dispute is eons from resolution, imposing a monetary punishment now places the court at risk of having to eat crow at a later date. Should Microsoft eventually win, as Siskind expects it will, the court would have to refund any fines. What other files should Microsoft give OEMs the option to remove?" asked Holley. "I don't feel comfortable saying," replied Weadock. "I couldn't draw a box around the files that constitute IE." "I can't cite specific C code or give you a list of files that make up IE. Some are shared," said Weadock.
