MICROSOFT PLANNED TO SABOTAGE COMPETITORS redherring.com
OK, here's the official Red Herring (what a bad name) story referred to in that cnnfn show. DR-DOS was the product being sabotaged, where's Andy Thomas now? DR-DOS is a different trial, coming soon to a courtroom near, uh, you who live in Utah, news on that one is a little sparse. Newcomer Mr. Smart posted the whole story elsewhere, I'll just round up the usual suspects.
"We should surely crash the system ..."
These are the words which one Microsoft vice president, David Cole, wrote in a memo to other senior executives at Microsoft (MSFT) -- including Senior Vice President Brad Silverberg -- about how to sabotage a competing operating system, DR DOS.
And the all purpose company line on all that email. . .
Microsoft's legal team, for its part, denies that the memos are proof of anticompetitive practices. In filings responding to the Justice suit, Microsoft stated that later, similar memos the feds have cited were irrelevant because they were created by low-level staffers who had no real role in the company's strategies. But can vice presidents like David Cole and Brad Silverberg reasonably be described as low-level staffers?
Well, they were all junior to Bill and secret #2 J. Allard. And that's all that counts.
Cheers, Dan. |
