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From: fraser@synopsys.remove.this.bit.com
Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy
Date: 1999/03/01
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I nearly cried when bill@ said:

>Other of Balmer quotes
>
>- "We are in a position where we can be replaced".
>- "We need to recommit to software engineering as a discipline". 
>- "too much hassle" when speaking of Microsoft products.
>- "We will get into what I'd call a vicious downward spiral" when
>   warning about what might happen.

That reads like somebody who's worried about losing an antitrust trial.

Fraser.