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The Resistance Grows (4/21/98)
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According to a Philadelphia Enquirer article, Microsoft continues to accumulate some high-profile enemies in the antitrust war. Their latest celebrity detractors include Robert Bork (whom you may remember from his Supreme Court nomination several years back) and former senator Bob Dole. Chalk up two more Washington personalities (yes, we use the term indiscriminately) to jump on the anti-Microsoft bandwagon.
Interestingly, both of these new additions to the Justice Department's side represent changes of view. Bork, who is an antitrust law expert, has apparently long championed the idea that a company can monopolize a particular industry without actually hurting consumers-- though now he claims that Microsoft has overstepped their bounds; he advocates a "broader case" against the software company and their "predatory practices" by the DoJ. And Dole, who, just three years ago, said the DoJ was being too hard on Microsoft, now feels that they are "doing the right thing" with their investigation.
Of course, Bork and Dole have more in common than just their dislike of Microsoft's business practices. Both are big-time governmental losers, in a very narrow sense: despite the nomination, Bork never made it onto the Supreme Court, and in the last Presidential race, Dole never made it into the White House. We at AtAT are not entirely sure that that fact is a harbinger of doom for the antitrust battlers, but it's definitely at least noteworthy. Still, it's nice to see these guys keeping busy.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 4/21/98 episode: April 21, 1998: A couple more big Washington names jump on the Microsoft pig pile. Meanwhile, PC Week confirms that the G3 has nothing to fear from the 400 MHz Pentium II, and forgotten film footage from three whole months ago undercuts Intuit's claimed reason for ending Mac Quicken development...
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