On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 09:49, Tom Marinis wrote: <bis snip of reasons why a government solutionwouldn't be useful)
Perhaps, but all that shows is that the existing anti-trust legislation doesn't work and that the current administration has no intention of making it work.
Not at all.
If I'm not mistaken, Microsoft was one of the Republican party's
largest campaign contributor, and they also have a tremedously large lobby group. Seemed the Democrats had it in for MS, but
the Republicians saved their bacon.
Still... the thought of Bill Gates serving a five year term has a certain poetic quality.
Bill has done nothing wrong; Gates is merely steering MS and operating this company within the legal obstacles that are presented to it, nothing more, nothing less, and playing hardball. It's called survival of the fittest.
However, if there was a sizable monetary penalty, along with a successful case proving MS of voilation of the Sherman-Trust Act, you probably would be finding more than a few people standing up and cheering...on both sides of our border :)
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