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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (16137)	1/15/1998 4:30:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

<If this were not MSFT and such a high-profile case, you might have seen punitive measures already directed against them.> That's because a lot of us do not have the resources to defend ourselves properly, not because the judge is beiing lenient. <In my view he has been surprisingly tolerant thus far. For instance, no perjury or contempt citations yet.> Your dreaming. MSFT is in 100% compliance. It is not up to MFST to interpret the judges order. They are were ordered to do XYZ, and they did it. You cannot be held in contempt for not doing what the judge meant, only for not what doing what he said. There is a big difference. <after he forbore giving the DOJ the fine they requested. He has truly been a lenient judge for them and they are pissing on his robe.> The DOJ had an overly ambiguous case where clarity is bound to the burden of proof, the judge had very little choice in the matter. You act as if the judge was being nice, he was being professional and doing his job accordig to the letter of the contract (the consent degree). <>>>I don't get why Lessig remains on the case.<<< Because trying to find a computer user that hasn't been offended by MSFT is like finding OJ jurors that didn't think OJ was guilty. It can be done, but you end up with imbeciles and people with agendas.. Oh, and a man who got busted conspiring to sue MSFT, who published many a anti-MSFT paper, and interacts directly with the lobbying arm and the general counsel of MSFT's direct and most tenacious competitor (who just happened to get this whole anti-trust ball rolling again) doesn't have a secret agenda. You are seriously parting with reality Chaz.