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To: g_m10 who wrote (1229)3/4/1999 4:03:00 PM
From: JC Jaros  Respond to of 2617
 
Yeah. It makes more sense for the IRS to collect the M$ tax. It would at least legitimize it. If the government published the APIs though, they'd be completely incomprehensible. That brings up the point that perhaps it'd be best for the U.S. to simply trade say, Guam for all of Microsoft, box it all up and shoot it into space.

-JCJ



To: g_m10 who wrote (1229)3/4/1999 5:01:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2617
 
Microsoft can still pull out the Rusty defense ...

Exhibit A: Windows 95

Exhibit B: Windows 98

Exhibit C: Windows NT 4.0

Bring in Billy Bob NUKE'm, "As you can see your Honor, the college kiddies and cowboys at Microsoft can't even DESIGN an operating system let alone monopolize them. They couldn't design @ssh_les for hobby horses. Exhibits A through C prove it."

The defense rests.


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