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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (17838)	3/5/1998 10:48:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Apologies to NYT and participants here: I really messed up my excerpt from the Palm Pilot story. I'm so used to heavy handed sarcasm, I stepped all over an excellent example of the Times' subtle irony. I can only plead weariness from addressing the compelling logic of the ad hominem crowd. Subtlety doesn't seem to be quite the right technique there. This time, quoted without comment from nytimes.com Earlier this year at a reporters roundtable in San Jose, Calif., Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates angrily disputed suggestions that his company was intentionally confusing the market and stealing ideas from an innovator. He said the idea was "beyond bizarre," that his company had "zero market share" in hand-held computing and that it had chosen the Palm PC name after doing original market research in which he was not involved. However, moments after Gates left the conference room, an assistant returned, saying she had come back to reclaim "Bill's Palm Pilot," which he had accidentally left behind. Cheers, Dan.