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To: Thure Meyer who wrote (23326)	5/1/1999 8:59:00 PM
From: Thure Meyer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

In case you are still following this case ZD-Net article zdnet.com >> Restart of Microsoft antitrust trial delayed a week By Will Rodger, Inter@ctive Week April 27, 1999 9:47 AM ET The start of the next phase in Microsoft Corp.'s ongoing antitrust trial will be delayed by at least one week, if not more, due to scheduling conflicts, officials for both sides said Monday. After more than four months of courtroom activity and nearly two months more of recess, both sides were prepared to go at it again May 10. But District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson gave Microsoft (MSFT), the U.S. Justice Department and 19 states an extra week to produce a list of three witnesses each for the upcoming rebuttal phase of the trial. Those lists were previously due yesterday, but will now appear May 3, because Jackson is still busy with a separate criminal proceeding.....<< Hope you all are still out there. Thure

To: Thure Meyer who wrote (23326)	5/3/1999 1:43:00 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Respond to of 24154

>>MS deliberately made Windows 3.1 incompatible, wrote bogus error messages to the screen, etc.<< I can remember it still. I was sysop on the win 3.1 beta and my boss at the time came to me and said something like, "if you see this error message from a beta site, have them send us this file. Developer A wants a look at it." It didn't seem malicious to me at the time. I was thinking that the developer in question had some theories about the way DR-DOS was doing a certain thing and he'd put a hook into the win 3.1 beta setup to try and get more information about it on the attempted installs over DR-DOS by the sites. There is a way to install win95 over dr/caldera dos. MSFT put some stuff in to prevent this but you can work around it, from what I've heard. By the way, did I read that Caldera sold 3 million copies of Caldera DOS last year, mostly to the embedded market? Is Caldera DOS re-entrant? I'm still of the mind that smaller can be better and never lost my fondness for DOS. I love programming character based apps with direct screen writes. ...fast loading and easy on the eyes. For some of us these GUI graphical modes can be difficult on the eyes. Also, try the experiment of loading windows or some other GUI on a machine with an AM radio aside it. The interference coming out of the radio will be way higher than if you switch into text mode. "Anyhoo," getting back to the Caldera case: In 1992 or so the FTC interviewed a slew of people from the then MSFT Personal Systems Group, about this very matter. I was dragged before them myself. If anything underhanded went on in that case, I would think that the FTC record may be of help. Could Caldera get those transcripts? "Live by the lawyers, die by the lawyers" FWIW Andy