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To: Dabbler who wrote (12160)	11/10/1998 3:40:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Respond to of 74651

So far, this all has been a debate about business practices, which, even if illegal, were certainly not criminal. This is serious testimony, but the actions implied by it probably and hopefully did not occur. Still, it's out there so here it is: From nando.net McGeady has provided the government with notes he took in July 1995 during a meeting with Gates. According to the notes, Gates insisted that "this anti-trust thing will blow over" and that "we haven't changed our business practices at all" -- even if procedures designed to ensure the security of e-mail messages might have to be changed. 1) If Bill Gates can be shown to have said "we haven't changed our business practices at all," it will embarass the judges who overturned Sporkin way back when and make the Appeals court less likely to overturn any decision by Jackson against Microsoft. 2) It seems very unlikely that Microsoft has a secret trove of email that they did not release to the Justice department. I believe that Gates may have wanted something like that but I can't imagine his lawyers risk jail by letting him do it. So the real import of these notes are simply to futher tarnish the image of Gates and therefore Microsoft.