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IP: A day of satisfaction as corporate bully gets comeuppance
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 05:32:23 -0400
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/front/docs/dg040400.htm Dan Gillmor: A day of satisfaction as corporate bully gets comeuppance BY DAN GILLMOR Mercury News Technology Columnist GUILTY. Microsoft Corp. is officially a corporate lawbreaker. The rule of law, at least for the moment, is victorious over the tyranny of untrammeled capitalism. A federal judge appointed by Ronald Reagan, the most pro-business and anti-antitrust president in recent memory, has shown again why our system has such strength. Thomas Penfield Jackson, no friend of interventionalist government, listened to the testimony and looked at the evidence in the landmark Microsoft antitrust trial. He came to a common-sense result -- that Microsoft has willfully, repeatedly and contemptuously violated the law -- and we are all in his debt. This is a day for satisfaction, not joy. Those who chortle over a bully's comeuppance shouldn't forget that this particular bully has done many things right and that most of the people at Microsoft are honest and diligent. And given that many Silicon Valley executives would mimic Bill Gates' worst acts if they had the chance, their glee isn't all that attractive. ....
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