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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (18700)	4/22/1998 12:53:00 PM
From: Cory Gault	Respond to of 24154

Apparently the street is not too concerned with Bork being bought and paid for...MSFT + 3 1/8 to 97 15/16, another all time high...and for anyone who cares....INTC up 4 1/8. Life is good. CG

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (18700)	4/22/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

<But there is one chink in the armour. Bork's no technology guru.> There is more than one chink. Bork was hired, he is being paid for, a for cash bounty hunter. This negates much of the intellectual honesty stuff. His motives are more than suspect. <Bork will carry a lot of moral weight with the conservative judicial audience to whom the antitrust case will more than likely be addressed.> As I have said. Gates said that his competitors hired these people who used to be known as Republican...

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (18700)	4/22/1998 3:47:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Respond to of 24154

Hiring Bork was definitely a major coup, whose importance cannot be understated. The new faces of antitrust news.com The announcement that Bob Dole and Robert Bork are lending support to ProComp should be recognized for exactly what it is: a classic assertion of power politics. The Dole/Bork maneuver is pure Washington, and one that, no doubt, has changed the tenor of conversations around watercoolers and espresso stands around the Beltway and perhaps across the country. Because now, it's no longer Microsoft vs. the government. Now it's Microsoft vs. you. ... Whether or not you subscribe to their views, few would ignore Dole or Bork--including the political establishment, national media, corporate executives, and other opinion leaders--exactly the people that Microsoft needs to convince.