On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 15:19, Tom Marinis wrote: > burns wrote: > > > 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. > I'm certainly not saying that he actually has. However, these are all publicly traded companies and if you start interfering behind the scenes in the affairs of another public company, with the deliberate intention of eliminating or obstructing competition, then I suspect that a number of laws might well be broken. If it could be proved that Microsoft paid off SCO and intentionally directed and engineered this whole fiasco to discredit and eliminate Linux as a competitor, then it will make the Explorer bundling issue look minuscule by comparison. Hardball is one thing, unfair business practices are another and conduct amongst publicly traded companies in particular is regulated. -- burns
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