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To: TheRainmaker who wrote (20837)	9/4/1998 12:47:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Microsoft Ordered to Provide More Antitrust Evidence nytimes.com Today's update from the NYT goes out to you, Tim, in honor of your favored ad hominem, "liberal". To preempt the inevitable "East Coast liberal elite" line, Bill dropped out of Harvard, but he seems to somehow retain some affection for the place, you know. At least he's sent a lot of money their way. Would you care to distinguish between "liberal and Bill's favored form, "communist", as in: At one point, Slivka proposed that Microsoft give away some software on the Net, as Netscape was doing. Gates, he recalls, ''called me a communist.'' But Bill's a better breed of communist now, right? Way beyond the liberal kind. All he's got to do is convince his commie pals in China to agree to comply with his personal definition of honesty, i.e. "Pay for my software!" The software giant also joined a Hong Kong-based record company to co-produce a pop music CD featuring popular artists from China and Hong Kong who sing about the virtues of honesty. (from Computer software piracy flourishes, usatoday.com Anyway, on to the story, not really much new there. "This new evidence shows that Microsoft has gone out and engaged in the same kinds of anti-competitive behavior with other companies as they did with Netscape," said David Boies, a Justice Department lawyer. I'm still puzzled about the postmodern economics behind the offer to Vobis of DOS for $9 /cpu shipped, or $19 /cpu shipped if those commie choice advocates also included DR-DOS with their machines. Bill just giving the customers what they want, I presume. Cheers, Dan.