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To: Dermot Burke who wrote (16093)	1/14/1998 6:19:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

The Microsoft Network bsd.mojones.com I checked around on the sidebars a little, Dermot, and thought I should point out this one, as another commentary on the (currently successful) "Naive Microsoft against Corrupt Washington" spin attack. Sure. But Gates' absence from the Beltway belies Microsoft's vast influence there. This past year, he scored a coup with the passage of the Software Export Equity Act (SEEA). The House Ways and Means Committee inserted the measure in the 1997 tax bill, rewarding software exporters with a tax break worth an estimated $1.7 billion over the next 10 years. The SEEA will benefit fewer than 100 companies-with Microsoft by far the biggest beneficiary. This article doesn't touch my other two favorites, the new copyright bill and the various trade negotiations with China, but I'm sure Microsoft's influence was no less pronounced there. But just wait til l Bill and his dad gear up a proper lobbying machine, right? Ask not what your country can do for you... Cheers, Dan.