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To: J. P. who wrote (11060)	9/29/1998 10:53:00 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 74651

Wow! looks like "the gang of 7" has finally been caught. Do you think it will be a public trial and confession, or will Ellison get off with abject apologies? LindyBill

To: J. P. who wrote (11060)	9/29/1998 10:58:00 AM
From: mrknowitall	Respond to of 74651

J. P. - Nothing new in this game. This is how big legal firms get bigger. At this pace, half of the senior staff of any large computer-related company is going to be equipped with "Esq." on their business cards. <g> Mr. K.

To: J. P. who wrote (11060)	9/29/1998 11:08:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Well, J.P., we're still waiting to hear Bill's "public" testimony on this matter, where he gets to reveal the Microsoft trade secret of his premature senility / deposition dependent amnesia / lying, you be the judge of which is the true secret. Or maybe the appeals panel will decide that whichever of the three it is, it is way too valuable a secret to spill the beans on. As for the hypothetical revelations to come from that other fishing expedition, we'll see. The actions of companies competing against a monopoly wouldn't exactly come under the same legal rules as the actions of the monopoly they are competing against, in my limited legal understanding. That's the subject of litigation, though. Cheers, Dan.

To: J. P. who wrote (11060)	9/29/1998 6:30:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 74651

JP, You must be a Slider, because this following statement cant be of this world.... Besides Apple is non compatible with most businesses, IBM makes crap hardware, Sun is way too expensive as is HP, and Compaq has that maddening proprietary setup of hardware and software. Novell ain't as broadly compatible as NT, and Netscape is slow as hell. So they ought to acknowledge they suck, and make themselves more competitive instead of crying about it. I have not heard a more hypocritical pile of dung in my life. Let me ask you: MSFT is a fast OS? (NOT), MSFT is not expensive when you need 3-4 times the number server to the same performance and features and its competitors? (NOT), MSFT is compatible with the industry when it is not pure-Java and not CORBA compliant, and does not use Pure TCP/IP services to provide its file and print? (NOT), and does MSFT make any hardware at all that could compare to IBM, Compaq and HP? (NOT). What a pile of crap! Toy