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To: Eugene Goodman who wrote (18869)	5/2/1998 6:24:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

And your point? Between the "First of all, kill all the lawyers" / Lessig never had a real job" lecture on the law, and the reverent discussion of the economic theories of Jack Klugman, er, Paul Krugman, I got no idea what you take seriously. Believe me, I used to take this stuff seriously, but not anymore. I regret somewhat that the early excitement lead me to break my vow to buy MSFT when they started buying their own stock back again. The company's going to make money no matter what. They can't lose. I just wish they'd be taking over the world with something better than Windows or NT. I'd be saddened if poor Ballmer took the fall here, near as I can tell he's the only guy who has much of a sense of humor in that bunch. Myhrvold, I don't know about him. He's still got to live down his information toll road advocacy. And, no matter what I might desire, I have no expectation of anything like the extinction of Microsoft, or a splitup or anything like that. Tell the truth, blocking Win98 seems sort of irrelevant. Who can be against an OS that sucks less? The issues are broader. Like I tell the objectivists, you think antitrust should be repealed, or Microsoft should be exempt, write your congressmen. Plenty of other big companies live with it without having to whine to the world about how unfair it is they're being beat up for "innovating" by copying or buying up other people's stuff. Intel and IBM among them, to bring up two currently relevant parties. Cheers, Dan.