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To: Slugger who wrote (20729)	11/12/1998 10:48:00 AM
From: MeDroogies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

What a joke! That guy is really on a major ego trip! He denies that stuff, even when the weight of evidence clearly points against him! If he didn't sabotage Quicktime, why is he "fixing the problem"? Of course a DOJ anti-trust suit benefits potential competitors. Primarily because they've been forcibly removed from the market, and are being continually marginalized by the monopolist. Any anti-trust suit will bear the characteristics this egomaniac is pointing to.... Of course, I am not technically AGAINST MSFT per se. I am against OEM deals that lock out competition. MSFT just happens to use them in a very anti-market anti-consumer way.....

To: Slugger who wrote (20729)	11/12/1998 10:50:00 AM
From: yofal	Respond to of 213182

Anyone else notice that the MSFT PR spin machine just seemed to lurch into gear in the last couple of days? Suddenly I'm seeing lots of "stories" with a serious pro-MSFT slant - and the shareholders meeting reports were full of details like "Gates gets standing ovation", people think "Gates is God", "want his autograph", rah, rah, rah... Why now? Why all of a sudden? Gates also vigorously denied accusations that the company attempted to "sabotage" Apple Computer Inc. multimedia software. "That's simply untrue," he said in response to a shareholder's question. "We've never done anything of that kind, and it's outrageous that anyone would make that claim." Stealing the code is okay though, right? Wonder where the Quicktime sabotage point will end up residing - Microsoft seems to suddenly be running scared on things, issuing the one day bug fix, getting a "objective" third party to vouch for it being an Apple problem. Apple's "response" seems to be within the territory of the rumour sites for now. Perhaps they're taking a low profile on this so that publically they're mum, but in the courtroom it's "sic 'em"... All: iMac bickering: it's the company stupid, not the share price. emmell