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To: Benny Baga who wrote (21611)	11/20/1998 3:05:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Respond to of 24154

In the court of public opinion... boston.com Comment: Why Gates and Microsoft Deserve to Lose JOHN ELLIS c.1998 The Boston Globe On one level, the case of the People of the United States of America vs. Microsoft Corp. grinds on. But on a more important level, the case is over and the People of the United States of America, as represented by the Department of Justice, have won. Anyone who ever thought, as I did, that the antitrust action against Microsoft was ill-considered must now agree it was anything but. ...

To: Benny Baga who wrote (21611)	11/20/1998 3:13:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Benny - Kempin is among the most rabid hard-a$$ of the senior executive staff - he's the one who put pressure on Vobis in Germany over DRDos, for example. But the idea of essentially leasing software instead of a perpetual license is hardly new - it was the standard way of doing business for most of the history of software, and is still the way nearly every high-end vendor does business. Sun, HP and IBM all do annual leasing of software rather than a revision-based perpetual license. Kempin is right in one area however - the big OEMs will push back hard if MSFT does not stay competitive on OS pricing. This is an area being hotly debated within MSFT and rumor is that Kempin is a minority of one in trying to hold price in a declining hardware cost market.