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To: RTev who wrote (19101)	3/28/1999 8:10:00 PM
From: t2	Respond to of 74651

Jackson is a Reagan appointee who's probably harder to convince in an antitrust case than another judge might be, but once he's convinced his ego will tell him that he must make the decision. He is the same guy who jumped the gun and said the AOL/Netscape deal may change everything. Why would an anti-MSFt judge quickly change tones. He is a reagonite and in the end will not be pro anti-trust judge. That comment on Netscape/AOL should give some insight into his thinking. He jumped the gun and evaluated that deal so quickly!!! Even though he changed his opinion later, it shows that MSFT just has to make a good case at the rebuttal and they are OK. He was just ticked off at MSFT's behavior after the Windows95 injuction he delivered. If he says Window/IE is not an integrated product, he is in big trouble in appeals-----those judges also have feelings and to being "overturned" by a lower court judge..........-you can fill in the blank. Judges love to pretend to side with one party and then turn around and deliver a judgement for the other. I have seen it myself. You cannot read too much into Jackson's courtroom comments. Furthermore, if Jackson just looks at the facts, many believe MSFT is OK in that regard.