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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (19178)	5/17/1998 3:25:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

For one thing, it's hard to stand on principle one week for things you were willing to negotiate away the week before. People expect you to at least be consistent from week to week. Then people have small minds, Jerry. No one would every accuse Bill and Co. of that failing. Cheers, Dan, waggish as every.

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (19178)	5/19/1998 7:44:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>>I can't imagine that anyone would deliberately engineer this show of inconsistency and weakness on the eve of such important litigation.<<< Jerry, he's just been stalling. Stalling until ready to ship. Stalling waiting for the tide to turn. Stalling is the universal business (wartime, familial, governmental...) tactic when something unpleasant may happen and you don't know what to do. Possible resultant inconsistency has a very low priority compared to buying time. MSFT has a long record of doing something out of line and then hoping to profit in the interval of legal stalling before they are actually stopped by force. Chaz