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To: Edward F. Horst Jr. who wrote (23922)	10/6/1998 6:52:00 PM
From: EPS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

"The tabby tiff may not carry the same weight in the IT space as the perceived rift between Intel and Microsoft. But one tipster, commenting from deep within the conspiracy theorists' camp, laid out this alternative scenario: Microsoft was actually the driving force behind Intel's equity investment in Red Hat. Microsoft's Wintel partner lining up behind Linux, the tipster reasoned, will send a not-so-subtle message to the Justice Department that the Redmondians indeed have some legitimate competition in the operating system market, thereby weakening the feds' case. On the 1-to-10 craziness scale, that one rates an 8.5." zdnet.com