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To: damniseedemons who wrote (21025)	9/23/1998 10:52:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Respond to of 24154

FWIW: at the News.com "Microsoft's Holy War on Java" link, I didn't see anything there that sounded illegal. I suspect that it might be, since monopolies have to live by a different set of rules in how they "compete", but then again, this is YANL (yet another non-lawyer) talking.

To: damniseedemons who wrote (21025)	9/23/1998 11:23:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Sal, there's this interesting statement: In addition to its acquisition and partner strategy, Microsoft explored ways to talk its most important ally, Intel, into dropping work relating to Java media technology Intel was collaborating on with Sun. In July, citing "changing Java market conditions," the leading chipmaker quietly abandoned work on its Intel JMedia Player, a software developer kit Intel had spent at least 14 months developing. Is this another instance where "Microsoft must be free to innovate, but not anybody else", as when Andy Grove caved on that other matter? Or did Intel just realize what a fraud Java was? As usual, I won't offer a legal opinion. What ever happened to Jerry anyway? All I'd ask is why can't Microsoft compete in the conventional sense, on the quality and price of its products? What does all this "mindshare" business got to do with, you know, the naive economic view of competion? Why does Microsoft have to direct Intel on the matter? It all seems sort of postmodern to me. Cheers, Dan.