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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (10771)	9/12/1998 6:01:00 PM
From: jim gasparich	Respond to of 74651

Dear Mr. schuh, No need to be so defensive. I am simply saying that the pro and anti Msft crowds see things the way they want them to be-not necessarily the way they really are,thus the "lively fiction" comment. The trial should help sort things out. As much as I'd like to see Msft totally acquitted you'd like to see the entire workforce jailed. But I realize I have a bias and it just doesn't seem like you can bring yourself to realize maybe you have one too. Cheers,Jim

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (10771)	9/12/1998 9:35:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Dan - You want to talk about lively fiction Anybody remember Cairo? Now THAT was great fiction!!! There's also still the story of the spiked DEC NC That one also caught my interest, but I have not been able to find anyone willing to talk about it. I do know that Strecker always believed that the NC concept was brain dead and would never achieve any market - 'the worst of X-terminals and the worst of windows, combined in one unappitizing package' was one quote ascribed to him. He liked the citrix winframe approach much better. So he probably would have jumped at the chance to scuttle an NC deal. And what were those Palo Alto guys doing on this anyway? They don't have much to do with products as far as I know. As to Palmer's comments to Ellison, Palmer was such a wimp he probably would have said anything to make Larry think he was still an OK guy. Palmer sure had a good tailor though... Having said all of that, I also don't discount the possibility that everything went down exactly as quoted. Fortunately on this one, the answers will be revealed at some point in the near future.