given the particpants, its hard to bother to take sides, but the idea that Gates is some kind of innovative entreprenuer is so laughable, that that alone makes him easy to root against.
Has anyone else noticed how poor the current crop of American business leaders are at generating genuinely new commodities? Can we blame this on the Krondratief cycle (speaking of the Gulag)?
On Mon, 18 May 1998, John St. Clair wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Since this list is ostensibly a "left business" list, I wonder about your
> take on the Microsoft anti-trust issue. Doug, since the coverage in the
> NYTimes has been horrible (tech journalists seem to be one-source wonders),
> could you add any infogossip on the states' case? I'm especially interested
> in the difference between the JD/AG's positions on (a) must-carry and (b)
> bundling. NYT's coverage indicates that the states were trying to stop not
> only the bundling of IE with Windows, but bundling *any* software together,
> specifically Office? Even if you are virulently anti-MS, and totally opposed
> to IE-Windows integration, doesn't this strike you as absurd? It's in *my*
> interest to buy 5 programs separately, rather than as a package? Who is
> driving this aspect? Hatch and his Utah (Novell) cronies?
>
> John
>
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