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Re: Just something everyone might be interested in

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From: David Petticord
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 00:00
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PJ wrote in message <69sfku$b0f$1@winter.news.erols.com>...
>this is a repost of a web site:
>
>http://www.ipmag.com/9801-1.html
>
Thank you for providing the link.

It was very good reading, unfortunately it was concentrating on ANTITRUST and not the contempt case.

It is interesting to note that it says...

"Jackson has left it to a special master -- Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig -- to interpret
the conflict in the consent decree between the "integrated products" provision and another provision
barring Microsoft from forcing PC makers to accept non-Windows products as a condition of receiving
a license to install Windows in their computers. Lessig is scheduled to report back to Jackson in
May."

This is far from the powerless "Special Master" that the DOJ, and the Judge, are contenting lessig
is.

If Microsoft is breaking the law, charge them with the law they broke.  Do not twist a simple
contempt charge into something it is not.

BTW, people have been asking us to refrain from spamming the world with these arguments.  I suggest
that we should try to limit where we start new threads.

My Opinion,
David Petticord
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From: "David Petticord" <dpetticord@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Just something everyone might be interested in
Date: 1998/01/18
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