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["Chris Owens" <internetworkers_box AT reality-v2-dev.com>]

Man - maybe I should unsubscribe....  We're dancing in the streets over
here...

Chris Owens
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Minton [mailto:dminton AT mindspring.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:33 PM
To: InterNetWorkers
Subject: [internetworkers] Re: The list isn't blowing up yet?

Bummer. Does that mean we will see Windows XP after all, and the end of
the
Internet as we know it when the script kiddies let loose a flood of
packets
on every port as the world has never seen?

Actually, I never doubted the former, and will hold my breath on the
latter.

David

On 9/6/01 3:10 PM, "Thomas Beckett" <thomas AT tbeckett.com> wrote:

> Medical Illustration wrote:
>> "The state attorneys general, who have also sued Microsoft, signaled
they
>> agreed with the federal government's change of heart. "
> 
> This seems to be the line in the NY Times and the Post as well.
> 
> I guess the only surprise to me is that the Bushies waited so long.
> Perhaps they thought the courts would do it for them and then were
> shocked to find that they were actually winning in court.
> 
> The DoJ denies that it is caving in to Microsoft, but even if you
> rationally justify dropping the breakup remedy, I can't think of a
good
> reason to just piss away one of your strongest negotiating chips like
> that.  
> 
> Green light to Microsoft.  They'll probably come up with a
"settlement"
> that insulates M$ from further antitrust ligitation for the next 10
> years or something.
> 
> TaB
> 
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