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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!ecn.purdue.edu!helz
  3. From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
  4. Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan4.011618.14045@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
  6. Sender: news@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (USENET news)
  7. Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
  8. References: <1992Dec26.204958.11455@Celestial.COM> <1992Dec29.021003.4037@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec31.173757.926@Celestial.COM> <1993Jan01.191757.10168@microsoft.com> <1993Jan03.202131.24166@Celestial.COM>
  9. Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 01:16:18 GMT
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  12. In article <1993Jan03.202131.24166@Celestial.COM>, ray@Celestial.COM (Ray Jones) writes:
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  14. |> Phil, go look at the size of Building 8.  Now go inside and count the number
  15. |> of lawyers in there.  Microport had a total of 22 people in the entire
  16. |> company - no lawyers.  The lawyer we contacted told us the legal costs to
  17. |> fight MS would be in the range of tens of millions of dollars.  Our total
  18. |> capitalization was only 1.5 million.  Now you tell me how we could fight a
  19. |> bully that big!
  20. |> (For those of you that do not live in Redmond, Building 8 use to be
  21. |> Corporate headquarters buildin, but now is used to house the legal staff.
  22. |> It is a vary large building.)
  23.  
  24. Isn't it sad that Microsoft needs to hire a whole building full of lawyers?
  25. I'll bet that most of them came on because of the Apple "GUI war" lawsuit.
  26. They'll have no end of work trying to fend off the FTC.
  27.  
  28. Don't you wish that litigation wasn't a business technique in America?
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  30.