central planning

[Peter Kilander]

The Microsoft anti-trust trial wound to a close Tuesday. The judge should
provide a findings of fact before Thanksgiving and give a verdict a couple
of weeks after that. Wednesday's New York Times had a piece on it in the
Business section and the last three paragraphs were interesting, I thought.

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Alluding to one possible remedy should Microsoft be found guilty -- giving
the Government a role in product development -- he [Microsoft defense
attorney] said, "I think all of us agree that central planning is bad."

In his rebuttal, Boies [government prosecutor] took up that line and said,
"I agree that central planning is bad." The judge then allowed that he, too,
opposed "central planning."

To which Boies added, "Central planning is bad -- by Governments, and by
monopolies."
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