Target: Microsoft; in a WQ&A, the company's leading critic urges a strategy for Justice
Article Abstract:
Gary L. Reback, of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati, saw the vindication of his longstanding complaints about Microsoft Corp tactics when the Department of Justice filed suit in Oct 1997, claiming Microsoft had violated a 1995 consent decree settling antitrust charges. Reback states Microsoft settled because it was losing, acquiring a terrible public image, and besides it represented vintage Microsoft tactics to engage in illegal conduct and derive as much benefit from it for as long as possible and then, on the verge of sanctions, to just stop.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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When Microsoft is split up, the public will gain
Article Abstract:
The Microsoft Corp threatens not just its competition in the computer industry with its offenses against antitrust law, but the competitive process itself. The federal suit claims Microsoft's offense to have been a tying arrangement, the tying product the Windows operating system and the tied product the Internet Explorer browser. The final chapter of this story should be the breakup of Microsoft, with the required divestiture of all business other than the Windows operating system.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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