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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (21967)	12/8/1998 3:24:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>> Why do we prosecute men for beating their wives, yet so seldom prosecute the women for beating their husbands? <<< "Well, the easy response to this is that, at least if the prosecutor is doing his job, he does prosecute women for beating their husbands when it happens." A more careful read will show that you did not answer the question asked. Note the word seldom, and please try again. And try going to the frequency of the actual offenses both ways, as well as the tendency of the law, in explaining this discrepancy. Or not, if you don't feel like it. I'm no longer handing out assignments. It's just too irritating. --------------------------- >>> Microsoft, which is subject to a different set of rules, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law for the identical conduct. <<< You refuse to admit that many areas of law recognize asymmetry of power in relationships, from child court to divorce court to criminal court to malpractice cases to professional license violation hearings to the antitrust laws. Why? Because it undermines your fairness argument. (Hopefully you really work for the DOJ and you just test out counter-arguments here. In which case go back to doing what you were doing, please. :) BTW, how do you weigh previous MSFT legal losses in this, like Stacker, the Seattle Computer MSDOS license, loss to XEROX on windowing system patents, various and sundry others, and now Java? Does repeat offending count with you? Cheers, Chaz