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To: ed who wrote (12912)	12/3/1998 4:13:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 74651

RE: Microsoft trial Don't get too depressed. The judge is biased, and BG has managed to annoy him into showing it (and he's been reversed once in the consent decree case). This is a civil trial and no one is going to be branded a criminal. I haven't seen anyone bleeding yet, and maybe Barksdale feels picked on, but no one has been hurt so far. Where's the damage to competition? If the namecalling in e-mail in MSFT is illegal, wait until they get a load of the transcripts of the Cowboys in a huddle. At the worst, the judge will order MSFT to cease and desist from talking so nasty. I can't imagine the judge requiring MSFT to charge for IE. To order distribution of source code for Windows would be ridiculous. Its bad enough to have one version. Suppose everyone could "fix" it. Hardly seems reasonable after Sun's victory over the Java license. As to the supposed monopoly price of Windows, the competitive price is $0 (the LRMC curve decreases at every quantity), but that is true of every piece of software. I think when MSFT introduces its per piece OS and application software prices IBM and Solaris will be shown to be greedy profiteers. Then there are the appeals. So relax. This will take a while and will hardly hurt at all.

To: ed who wrote (12912)	12/3/1998 6:56:00 AM
From: Cory Gault	Respond to of 74651

Ed: This is a good point....The longest lasting effect of this case is that every company with more than 3 employees will institute a mandatory email purge policy.... CG