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To: rudedog who wrote (21614)	11/20/1998 6:02:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Perusing the DOJ documents: Gerald, what do you think of this document? I've retyped it in case you don't have a .PDF viewer: GATEWAY 2000 CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION I just got off the phone with Brian Fujiwara, our new MS account rep. Brian is young and only a 15 month employee with MS. He doesn't "think" before he speaks. The below comments definately crosses the line of "what is legal". ---- Brian asked my help in determining if there was any hope for MS that GW change our mind and not use Netscape on our IntraNet. Brian wanted me to find out what our objections were and make sure that MS has an opportunity to address those objections to their software. They want to know if it was a technical issue or something else. Brian said that this is a HUGE issue with MS. He said MS wants to get back to doing co-marketing and sales campaigns with GW, but they won't if they see GW is anything but pro Microsoft. He said and I quote, " Dell turned Netscape down because they did not want to hurt their relationship with Microsoft. Therefore, they (Dell) get special things because of it". Brian is meeting with Joachim on Tuesday, 3/4/96 and wants to let him know where GW stands. He said that this has Ballmer's attention as well.

To: rudedog who wrote (21614)	11/20/1998 6:06:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Everyone should sit for an hour and look through the documents that the DOJ has put on the web. They are poorly organized, but there are so many interesting ones, it almost doesn't matter. I'm going through the exhibits starting at #300 right now. It's truly enlightening and frightening. I've been a big critic of Microsoft, but I didn't know it was this bad. usdoj.gov

To: rudedog who wrote (21614)	11/20/1998 9:32:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

On the subject of Kempin, here's a column of historical interest, it was the first I heard of him. I figured out fairly early on that the Microsoft OEM chokehold was a key element in the browser war, but finding the name of someone who could send the OEMs crawling to Ballmer(?) for mercy startled me a bit. As I've posted before I've actually come to sort of admire Ballmer, he's obviously as competitive as anybody, but pretty forthright from what I've read. Anyway, here's esteemed ilk sister Mary Jo Foley with a blast from the past. Cheers, Dan. Who Is Microsoft's Secret Power Broker? zdnet.com