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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (19749)	5/27/1998 9:42:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Good cheesy debating technique, Reggie. I quoted the article. They didn't say what NCSP spent. Bork, Bill tried to hire him too, but that doesn't count right? King Bill with the Midas touch couldn't match the bid, and he's doing such a good job defending himself, what would he need Bork for anyway? Or maybe Bork, given a choice, picked the side he personally agreed with. What's money to him, anyway, for a conservative poster child it's a lot easier picking up bucks on the corporate banquet circuit. Reback, Dole, don't work for just Netscape. So, Reggie the Omniscient one, how much did Netscape spend lobbying? Or would you prefer to continue the unsubstantiated innuendo game? I don't know, personally, but I kinda doubt they outspent Bill and Co. And, there's plenty of legislature out there that has Microsoft fingerprints all over it. I don't know what Netscape's gotten passed. Cheers, Dan.

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (19749)	5/27/1998 11:08:00 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Respond to of 24154

Reg- I have a new theory. Nobody in this day and age would be stupid enough to make the statements recorded in the Microsoft E-Mail evidence so it must have been planned to provoke Justice to come in and break up the company. That way everybody's Microsoft stock holding become diversified and, based on the AT&T and Standard Oil cases, double or triple in value in a short period of time. Smart move. And must be a lot of fun. I hear a lot of tee-heeing. Have you calculated the breakup value of MSFT? Harvey

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (19749)	5/27/1998 11:34:00 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>Have you calculated the breakup value of MSFT? Can you imagine MSN competing with AOL and given the same valuation? Or Microsoft Internet Products going head to head with Netscape and Yahoo and catching their valuations? Harvey

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (19749)	5/31/1998 1:39:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>>>Take the lobbying DOLLARS SPENT, not just the legal(?) donations made, and divide it by the annual revenues of the company.<<< Why? To prove how easy it is for big companies to overwhelm small ones with tiny percentages of their total assets? Because that is what you would be proving. I also spend more of my income as a percentage on sales taxes than Bill Gates. So what? On another note, somebody brought up the issue of whether MSFT is a 'natural monopoly'. I really don't see what natural has to do with it. It's natural to hunt food naked in the woods, too. And so... One of the consistent early arguments against democracy was that is wasn't natural. Of course that is correct. The rule of law in democratic societies helps us overcome the baser elements of our human nature. In this case, antitrust law. Chaz