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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (21155)	10/29/1998 11:10:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

In my view, this whole debate over the "set-up" theory is totally bogus. Of course Netscape and others have tried to set up Microsoft. People are always trying to set up their opponents to make them look bad. The real issue is whether Microsoft took the bait, and, if so, why. If Microsoft reps walked into the trap innocently and took the bait because somebody else implanted in their heads the totally foreign to them idea of dividing the market, that's one thing. But if Microsoft has a predisposition to commit illegal acts, and Netscape et al. just gave them the opportunity to do what they already wanted to do anyway, then they fully deserve whatever Judge Jackson has in store for them. So, Microsoft's state of mind and what they did about it is what the two sides should be debating, not what others did to set them up.