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To: miraje who wrote (10348)	8/27/1998 11:59:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 74651

Political tags mean little in the context of this issue. Hatch, Bork, Gingrich, and Gorton are all "conservative" Republicans but the latter two have made statements of principle regarding the DOJ's persecution of Microsoft that I believe are morally correct and consistent with conservative values. Senator "Novell" Hatch, along with "Netscape" Bork, seem to shed their free market ideology when constituent concerns and retainer fees, respectively, assume priority over principle. Oh, spare me. Newt and Slade making statements of principle? Who's the naive one here? Newt making a stump speech for a Washington congressman, throws in the usual straw man arguments, and it's some morally correct statement of principle? Slade goes off with a favorite of Microphiles everywhere, wondering about antitrust issues in the Microsoft contest is a commie plot, and that's a morally correct statement of principle? Fine, they made statements you agree with. Not to get into political philosophy, and leaving Microsoft totally out of the picture, I'd credit Hatch and Bork with considerably more personal integrity than I could ever see in Newt and Gorton. Do you have some evidence to the contrary? Microsoft tried to hire Bork too, you know. That's just my own judgement, nobody's blameless but Newt and Slade have a bit of a trail. And to forestall the inevitable simplistic counterargument, it's not a binary value. There are degrees of integrity. On the particular legal matters at issue, Hatch and Bork also seem to be content to make legal arguments. Friends of Bill make a legal argument every now and then, of course, but they seem to favor revisionist history and various slurs about how unamerican anybody who doubts Bill's good intentions is. Oh, that and the ever popular "Microsoft must be free to intimidate, imitate, integrate, I mean Innovate". Microsoft must also be free to suppress and sabotage anybody else's innovation that might threaten Bill's personal economic central planning. I'm sorry that my small mind has trouble keeping it all straight. That hobgoblin keeps after me. Cheers, Dan.