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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (56178)	5/29/1998 12:01:00 AM
From: Francis Chow	Respond to of 186894

<So........why doesn't Intel just send a check for 5K every day, and ignore the FTC?> Because it would probably be considered contempt of court - besides the FTC can always seek punative sanctions - like the $1M a day it went after MS with. Suppose MS had said, "we've got billions, we'll pay the $1M per day and to hell with you . . . " do you think things would have stopped there? Really? Fact is, no entity - not even the almighty Bill Gates - can set itself up as a greater power than the nation state - fought a civil war and killed a lot of people to settle that point didn't we?