Microsoft, Justice Dept. Speak Up nytimes.com
And the early reading is good for Bill. That's ok, the whole sacred icon thing was pretty silly, time to move on to the larger action. This is the AP story.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told CNNfn on Monday night that the software maker was willing to begin a public fight to protect its stance.
Like, it's been a private fight up till now? Like, the PR guys have been strangely silent?
''The people believe in allowing great products to move forward, and there's been a lot of misinformation put out by the competitors,'' he said. ''They're willing to spend a lot of money, and so I guess that's a new area of expertise that we'll have to develop.''
It's a grass roots movement! The people raise their glasses to the noble Bill! He's taking us where we want to go!
As far as misinformation goes, there's a certain irony in the masters of megahype marketing and FUD raising that issue. I guess the expertise of the Steve Bartko era has dissipated, and Bill's got to relearn the dirty tricks game for scratch. He can always call on the brilliant Nathan, expert on Nixon-era dirty tricks. Though I calculate he's a bit young to have much first hand recollection of the era.
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Justice Department Is Closely Questioned in Microsoft Case nytimes.com
Which comes across as even more favorable to Bill.
"There seems to be overlap of codes," said Judge Stephen Williams. "It seems to me, if the codes are the same, it sounds to me like an integrated product."
Judge Williams seems to have gotten sucked into the "it's so modular, it's integrated" duality of man thing. It's all bunch of DLL's, what can you say, they don't call it "dll hell" for nothing. I don't mind IE laying around, though I get sort of annoyed I got to have 2 copies on disk, the code and the swap space copy, just so I can open a folder now and then. I got to order that 2nd 32 meg soon.
Cheers, Dan. |
