Brian, I have frequently said how much I admired Microsoft - I've called it a national asset. If polled, I guess I would even have to state that I have an overall favorable opinion of Mr. Gates.
Now what does that have to do with requesting that Mr Gates, and Microsoft, obey the laws of this country?
One of the newpapers that Sonny McWilliams was so kind to post, in Madrid, put it well:
Madrid daily Expansion heralded the US judge's decision that Microsoft had exploited its market dominance to quash
competition. It said the opinion, that could lead to an ultimate ruling that Microsoft had breached US anti-trust law, was
"perhaps the end of the law of the strongest."
"Now technology companies, however strong they are, will have to respect the rules of the game," the paper said.
To which we should all be saying Amen. Surely Brian, no matter how vehement a Microsoft support you might be, would resort to arguing that anything Microsoft does should be above the law... or would you?
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