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To: DownSouth who wrote (13011)	12/7/1998 4:41:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Respond to of 74651

Another Microsoft Exhibit- usdoj.gov Well, maybe Microsoft publically claims that the playing field is level, and that everyone has equal access to the important channels, but at least in this email, Bill Gates claims the opposite: From: Bill Gates Sent: Monday, June 16, 1997 3:38 AM To: Paul Maritz Cc: Aaron Contorer; Nathan Myhrvold; John Ludwig; Paul Gross; Ben Slivka Subject: Java schism A point that is important to me is to have PURE JAVA applications that do a lot HAVE to ship a full runtime instead of being able to count on the run time being shipped with the operating system. This will make them more complex in some ways that a Windows application that uses our native APIs. It will make the Installation and version management harder. Since we do want to run JAVA applets in the browser we have to provide some JAVA support there. It may be that some of the JAVA runtime should ONLY be available through the browser - like AWT versus our equivalent. I think restricting some things to the browser is an important idea that should be explored. Mozek, you've got to be a little embarrassed about emails like this. Making third party products harder for consumers to use to promote your own?