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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gerald Walls who wrote (12918)	12/3/1998 12:52:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Everyone is playing word games. No, he's not on the witness list but his deposition counts as much as any witness, perhaps more than most. Here's how the government would play the tape: "Yes, Maritz sent me that email. Yes, he said undermine Java. Yes, I worried about Java and considered it a threat to Windows. Yes, we introduced changes into Java which we knew might cause incompatibilities." CUT! It's a wrap! Later MSFT would play the rest of it, after the buzz of the headlines saying "Gates Admits Microsoft Intentionally Undermined Java". The rest of it would be a footnote. Unless you believe that the press is really stupid and biased, I can't imagine that that trick would work more than once.