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To: marginmike who wrote (22200)	1/29/1999 12:00:00 PM
From: Bux	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Now you're asking me to think back to MSFT's stone-age but I brought it on myself. As I recall it, and it is all a little fuzzy now, IBM needed a good operating system to help sell the PC and Bill became the software provider. I don't think IBM or Intel received ownership of any of Bill's company and certainly not any IPR essential for future operating systems. But that all happened before I knew who Bill was so you're asking the wrong person. I wouldn't be against strategic alliances with other telecoms, but the thought of the control of the future of CDMA falling into hands that I do not trust nearly as much as Irwin Jacobs, does not sit well with my way of thinking. p.s. Bill was dealing with IBM when he had nothing to loose. I bet the entire DOS fit on one 720k floppy with room to spare and as I remember, MSFT wasn't even public.