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To: Deliveryman who wrote (18822)	4/29/1998 1:24:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

I maybe sensitive, but admitting to using the feds as an advertising vehicle makes any comments from them suspect... they admit to having a reason to fan the flames... Oh, give me a break. Using the feds as an advertising vehicle? That's a new one. Of course they have a reason to fan the flames, NSCP is probably the biggest victim of "standard Microsoft business practice" so far (except maybe IBM, but they had other problems, such as actually paying attention to antitrust law). Hard to make money when someone with approximately infinite resources sets the "market price" of your products to zero. Sub-zero, actually, a lot of entities were paid to take IE. Any statement from any company is most likely self-serving. On the antitrust front, assuming for the moment the validity of the law, who should the trustbusters be looking into anyway? Cheers, Dan.

To: Deliveryman who wrote (18822)	4/29/1998 1:26:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Respond to of 24154

There is no "admission" to have a reason to fan the flames. It's transparently obvious to everyone involved that Netscape has an interest in the Department of Justice action against Microsoft. It's also transparently obvious to everyone that Netscape is using the DOJ action to publicize itself. That doesn't say anything about the merit of the claim. Are we to shed a tear for Microsoft being bullied by that mean old nasty DOJ? Lots of people on this newsgroups were saying that Microsoft could just hire the more expensive lawyers and just roll over everyone. So either Netscape,et. al. are paying more for their lawyers, or maybe, just maybe, they have a case that can't be thrown out just by Microsoft throwing money at everyone.