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Ralphy's Got Teeth (11/13/97)
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Today marked the first day of Ralph Nader's big "Appraising Microsoft" conference in Washington, and the Computer Reseller News describes the lineup of attendees. It's like Redmond's Most Wanted.

Check it out: Gary Reback, the lawyer who Wired Magazine described as the only man that Bill Gates fears; Sun's Scott McNealy, who makes public anti-Microsoft tirades as a hobby (and whose presentation was apparently titled "No One Should Own the Alphabet"); Roberta Katz, the head mouthpiece over at Netscape; Andrew Schulmann, the guy who, among other things, "proved" that Microsoft hobbled its own software so it wouldn't run on a competitive product; the CEO of Caldera, who has sued Microsoft for anticompetitive practices; and, of course, Ralph himself. Zowie!

While Microsoft themselves understandably steered clear of the conference, they did mobilize some lackeys to help balance the proceedings. The Association of Microsoft Solution Providers, after a little prodding by the big guys in Redmond, encouraged its members to send letters to Nader, congress, and local newspapers in an attempt to counter the "negative PR and potentially damaging impact" that the conference will bring upon Microsoft. In addition, members of the AMSP are showing up in D.C. in person to try to counter the anti-Microsoft sentiment. The eternal struggle continues...

 
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The above scene was taken from the 11/13/97 episode:

November 13, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 175: Digging Ever Deeper (11/13/97)   Michael Dell doesn't seem to get it. Several weeks ago he makes a catty comment about Apple needing to be shut down, and now he seems taken aback that Steve Jobs responded in kind last Monday. A PC Week Online article reports that Mike thinks Steve's response was "silly." Okay, to his credit, he says that his own comment was "silly," too...

  • 177: Lovin' the Blues (11/13/97)   When the initial developer release of Rhapsody shipped a month ago, people were a little bummed out that the Blue Box wasn't included. The Blue Box, as you probably know, is the Mac OS compatibility module of Rhapsody that will allow us to run today's standard Mac applications...

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