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To: ed who wrote (21209)	11/5/1998 2:46:00 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Respond to of 24154

Hi Ed, I don't like some of MSFT's tactics or the attitudes of some of the people I've met there, but people with bad attitudes are in every organization of that type. I think their software could be a lot better and faster. On the other hand, I don't agree with this lawsuit brought by the DOJ. But, as Dan Shuh may have once pointed out, MSFT wants everyone to obey copyright laws, but they want to be free from the constraints of antitrust law. Isn't that in and of itself hypocritical on MSFT's part? I think the DOJ should drop the suit, and the antitrust laws should be changed. If someone resells media, they owe the original authors some arbitrary number (aren't all of human rules and regulations arbitrary?) like %40 of gross. I used to say %10 but that freaked too many people out. It seems to me that the marketeers at MSFT want everyone to think that this is all magic. Even with some of the good talent they have there, they're modern day Wizards of Oz in my view. FWIW Andy