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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (21630)	11/20/1998 11:23:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Sure, John. Do you think Japan approaches the Objectivist ideal more closely than the U.S.? Do you think Japan, Inc. will welcome a Gaijin like Bill with open arms? Do you think the legions of Microserfs will find happiness in famously xenophobic Japan, where ethnic Koreans whose families have resided there for generations still have to get fingerprinted every year? Do you think going offshore will get Microsoft out of antitrust hot water? Will Microsoft walk away from the U.S. market just to prove a point, Galt-style? Do you expect the U.S. government to enforce Microsoft's sacred intellectual property rights after it's taken its leave? Hey, it could happen. Cheer, Dan.

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (21630)	11/21/1998 4:30:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Microsoft Finds Silver Lining in Tokyo Reprimand nytimes.com And not just Microsoft, it appears. After a yearlong antitrust investigation, Japan's Fair Trade Commission told the Microsoft Corporation yesterday to change permanently one of its marketing practices and pointedly warned the company to watch its step in the Internet browser market. But despite the reprimand, the Japanese antitrust agency also stated that Microsoft's business practices "cannot be immediately found to have tended to impede fair competition" in the market for browser software in Japan. You got to take your victories where you find them, eh John? On the other hand, sometimes a reprimand is still a reprimand. Cheers, Dan.