Are you comfortable being associated with traditional opponents to Microsoft–Netscape Communications, Sun Microsystems, Novell, and NetManage?
If a group of companies raises an issue, doing it dispassionately, then we are wholly comfortable being associated with that group. We would love for everyone to stand up and say these are good principles. We hope everybody who cares about this issue would sign onto this process and principles. You and RealNetworks have been very careful to say Microsoft “intentionally disabled” your software. Isn’t that the same as saying they sabotaged you? I said they wrote code that disabled us. I didn’t say it was behaving as Microsoft intended or that Microsoft would defend its appropriateness. I was making a technical statement–that the code looks to see if it should or should not disable [our product]. If it thinks it should, then it goes ahead and disables our products. You spent ten years at Microsoft. Even after you left, you were involved in the 1995 advising process when Bill Gates created an Internet strategy. How does it feel to go up against your former employer? I have so much respect
