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To: Alan Buckley who wrote (19870)	6/2/1998 5:23:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

MSFT's shown flexibility on everything except the ability to control the design of their own product, hardly a technicality. That's the Microspin. The one offer that got them to the table before the suit was filed was pulled before negotiations began. The minute the Saturday meeting broke the trades were flooded with the Microsoft side of the story. What a crock. Somewhere in there, there was a carefully worded statement from Microsoft saying they had offered "great flexibility in the matter of contracts with ISPs.". Big whip. They'd already given in on that to the EU, though apparently the big US ISP's still were under the old "exclusive" contracts. And, the other thing on the Apple suit, I was wrong, it largely came down to Apple v. Microsoft when it was litigated, though I don't think it started that way. Doesn't matter, though, it was a copyright suit, and largely turned on this Apple / Microsoft contract. How you draw some big parallel with a federal antitrust suit, beats me. Though when you're in the whining crybaby "Antitrust is unfair" crowd, anything works I guess. About as applicable as the Chrysler car radio, and certainly ties into Microsoft must imitate, I mean innovate. Cheers, Dan.