RE: Common carriers Re: A letter to Joe

Joe Barrera (joebar@MICROSOFT.com)
Mon, 18 May 1998 10:40:38 -0700

> If we adopt this definition,
> and Microsoft shipped this set of capabilities without any of the other
> gunk and without tying practices -wrt- other (application) products,
> then it would seem to me that most of the Microsoft legal issues go
> away.

You're right, of course.

The legal issues would also go away if Microsoft just stopped selling
software.

Here's a question. What do you believe are the *minimum* concessions that
Microsoft needs to make for the legal issues to go away?

That, I believe, is the question to ask, and the question on which the
Microsoft/DOJ talks broke down. If, for example, Microsoft doesn't believe
that it is legally required to pull features from its OS, then its not going
to make that concession -- or if it does, then it's only to avoid what
essentially is a nuisance lawsuit.

- Joe

Joseph S. Barrera III <joebar@microsoft.com>
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