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To: Retiarius who wrote (7857)	5/22/1998 9:11:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 74651

Retiarius, re: >>Does the September date mean Win98 will or can be released in June, as planned? no! from a legal standpoint, it is not an all-clear -- the request for injunctive action to modify win98 still sits before judge ronald whyte of the u.s. district court.< I'm not clear as to why the Sun suit has anything to do with Win98? Is Win98 written in the Java language which MSFT licensed from Sun? I don't think so. At any rate, the more the government tries to deny the people access to their rightful choice of legal products, the more the people will demand the product. At any rate, It is not at all clear that Sun has any legal gripe against MSFT. It's interesting that the same people demanding that OEMs be allowed to hide all visible traces on the screen of Win98, are the same people crying foul because MSFT modified the Java language which they licensed from Sun. Interesting lack of consistency in the arguments. Clearly this is all software politics, with the rabble demanding the overthrow of the people's choice of leaders: Wintel. Long live Wintel.

To: Retiarius who wrote (7857)	5/22/1998 11:11:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

On the contrary, Win98 can ship as planned. First as far as the SUNW suit goes, they made it clear they were not out to prevent WIn98 from shipping. If they are successful in their civil litigation then at some point off in the future, some future version of Win2000 will either conform to JAVA or not use the JAVA name. Second there was no request for a temporary restraining order in the Justice Dept suit. So Win98 ships. All that happens now is that the parties prepare for the hearing on a preliminary injunction in September. Even if an injunction is issued in a timely manner by Judge Jackson, say by November or early December, MSFT will appeal. In other words if you are smart you will see that the Justice Department is repeating the entire Win95 consent decree and subsequent MSFT violation all over except this time with Win98, MSFT isn't even consenting. What can the maximum outcome of the suit be? MSFT may have to start issuing a version of Win98 with its browser left to be installed by the user (as in the Control Panel Windows components you can install or not install) some time in 1999. by then Win98 will be as much of a standard as Win95. There will be no recall. Smart investors should wise up. MSFT won the minute Justice decided not to press for a suit breaking up MSFT. This current WIn98 suit is quite limited and basically the press is jerking all of you around.