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To: Andy Thomas who wrote (22524)	2/2/1999 1:48:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Well jeez Andy, I got to stand up a (tiny) bit for the noble Bill here. Sometime after this story originally came out, which might have been 2 years ago(!), I said Bill was right to say "Has anybody heard of f*ing Windows?", from Microsoft's perspective. (Or was it "has anybody f*ing heard. . .) It was and is basicly a Windows company. I thought that Microsoft's credibility on Java had to be suspect, their efforts seemed so obviously subversive. I feel for poor Slivka, though, first he gets dumped on relentlessly by Bill, then he's revived as a key figure in the revisionist history for the antitrust defense. Microsoft's antitrust defense is so botched, though, I think they may have been better off if they had just rested after the Government finished and said the charges hadn't been proven. Their best angle is the Chicago School defense, it might still hold on the first level of appeal, but I don't think all the eroding credibility can help them. And I wonder if the Supreme Court will be willing to throw out the very idea of antitrust enforcement here, given the various misfires in the Microsoft shotgun defense.