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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (16124)	1/15/1998 12:32:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Harvey, I had to dig up this old quote from when the current matter first broke open: As for the fine of $1 million a day that the Justice Department said it would seek in civil contempt charges if the company did not change its policy, Gates said the amount had been overly dramatized, and he predicted that the case would never reach that stage. "What the judge says to do we'll do," he said. "That's the way things work in this country." (from nytimes.com; So Bill's got a little bit of irony in him too, it appears. He's not my hero for nothing, you know. The Judge doesn't seem to be amused, though. Meanwhile, from one of yesterday's stories: Microsoft attorney Steven Holley asked Cole: "The court has ordered Microsoft to give OEMs [original equipment manufacturers] a version of Windows 95 without IE. What would Microsoft have to do to allow other applications to access the Web [without IE]?" Cole said: "We would have to add back some files, change install scripts, and make sure it works. So we would have to do quite a bit of work." (from news.com Oh my, change some install scripts, add back some files, test it to be sure it works. I'm sure that will impress upon the Judge that he's asking far to much from the noble, ironic Bill. Let Microsoft be Microsoft, the people cry! Cheers, Dan.