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To: John Donahoe who wrote (16464)	1/20/1998 9:23:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Hey, John, I gave you two simple, fairly obvious solutions that Microsoft has chosen to play dumb about. You playing dumb too? Or have I stumbled onto something that's beyond the comprehension of mere mortals, perchance? Or, you just doin' the middle finger thing? Cheers, Dan.

To: John Donahoe who wrote (16464)	1/20/1998 9:41:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

It is clear that the judge did not intend for MSFT to deliver a non-working version of Win95. Such an interpretation is clearly an attempt at being cute. If MSFT is not clear what the actual intention is, don't you think that they could simply ask the judge what he meant? Anyone using a common-sense approach would clearly understand that what was meant is to remove the stuff that is only used by IE. Moreover, MSFT's interpretation of the judge's order is not even consistent. If their interpretation is literal in that any code that is used by IE must be removed, then they must remove nearly the entire OS, since most of the basic functionality provided by the OS is used by IE, including file i/o and Win32 GUI support. I don't believe that this is what they have offered, so clearly there must be some other guiding principle that MSFT is using in their attempts at complying with the judge's order. Please give me an interpretation of their approach that is consistent with the judge's order, either literally or "in-the-spirit"? The ball's in your court.