>
> At: http://www.sjmercury.com/business/tech/docs/041107.htm
> But in the reply, which must be filed in federal court no later than
> Monday, Microsoft will argue that conversations at a 1994 retreat, as well
> as other Microsoft discussions and documents dating to late 1993, show its
> Internet plans were under way before before Netscape was founded, the
> newspaper reported.
* We demonstrated a browser prototype to IBM in an unofficial meeting
in the fall of 1982.
* We had a NASA contract for a computer browser in 1985,
* We filed for patent in fall of 1984, after demo to NASA
* We had proposed a "community typewriter" home computer/typewriter
network browser concept using carrier current technology to SCM circa
1985.
* We had correspondence with Microsoft on their infringement of our
technology in 1990 - 1993, and possibly earlier.
And XEROX had a multi-computer browsing system BEFORE WE DID!!!
Apple had networked computers with icons representing other computer
in the late 1980's
Apple had Hypercard, a multi-computer browser system circa 1990,
LONG before MS thought of it!!!
And then there were some things proposed by Vannevar Bush, long
before any of us had our ideas.
> A senior Justice Department official told the newspaper this week that
> evidence in the government's case shows a pattern of anti-competitive
> behavior by a company that was ``simply hellbent on driving a competitor
> out of the market.'' Microsoft's defense, he said, is a ``grand exercise in
> revisionist history.''
Exactly! They wore us down to the point where legal counsel
estimated our legal expenses, even for a _contingency_fee_ infringement
action at a point too high for us to afford.
> Microsoft will argue that the Justice Department's road map is distorted.
> And interviews with current and former Microsoft executives and business
> partners, plus internal documents from 1993 and 1994, suggest that the
> company will at least be able to cast doubt on the government's evidence of
> intent, the New York Times said.
I have a few choice words on that... One does wonder about the
ability of peer pressure and financial pressure to create shared delusions
within a corporate structure. Admittedly, this is more often noticed in
Wall Street stock analysts than computer people, but is clearly not a
limited phenomenon.
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