<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 11/22/2004 7:20:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, fp@wjv.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">The stories about MS were documented in several of the anti-MS <BR>
hard-backs about the time the US Government started to go<BR>
after MS in court.<BR>
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Some of the dealings at some of the software companies even<BR>
make lawyers look respectable in comparison.<BR>
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Bill<BR>
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Bill:<BR>
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It's not just Microsoft. When Digi bought Arnet, that was the end of Arnet. Or, more recently, when ComputerBoards bought Labtech, that was the end of Labtech.<BR>
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Regards,<BR>
Ron Satz<BR>
transpower@aol.com<BR>
<A HREF="www.transpowercorp.com">www.transpowercorp.com</A><BR>
Commercial and custom software manufacturing since 1976;<BR>
SCO Authorized and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineering<BR>
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