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IP: Antitrust Suit Born of Law, Not of Lobbying NYT
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 08:45:30 -0400
July 2, 2000 Antitrust Suit Born of Law, Not of Lobbying By STEVE LOHR It is no secret that the rivalry between the software leaders, Microsoft and Oracle, is bitter. Still, the acknowledgment last week by Oracle that it financed a series of escapades intended to embarrass Microsoft provided some lively summer entertainment -- especially the Keystone Kops caper in which private investigators offered office cleaners $1,200 for the contents of a pro-Microsoft trade group's wastebaskets. Yet in the cross-fire of invective that ensued, the two foes found some common ground in what is known as public choice theory, whose practitioners use economic principles to analyze government decision-making, especially the influence of special-interest groups. http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/sunday/070200biz-econ-column.html
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