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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (19434)	5/19/1998 2:12:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

United States v. Microsoft nytimes.com The good gray Times weighs in editorially today. Concluding paragraph, quoted without comment: Microsoft maintains that everything it is being asked to do is impractical. That is for the courts to decide. But Mr. Gates must know better than to assert that the Government's demands are the equivalent of asking Coca Cola to include cans of Pepsi in all its six-packs. Coca Cola is not a monopoly, but Microsoft's operating system is. It would be better if Mr. Gates recognized that reality and stopped behaving as if his company were still a struggling upstart. As he said yesterday, the world awaits an era of accelerating change in computers, with undreamed-of products in voice recognition, artificial intelligence and Internet commerce. The Justice Department and the attorneys general are right that the inventors of products in these areas must be allowed to market them to consumers free of a stranglehold by Microsoft. Cheers, Dan.