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Authored by: cbc on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 09:46 PM EDT |
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Authored by: cbc on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 09:48 PM EDT |
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Authored by: cbc on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 09:50 PM EDT |
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 10:23 PM EDT |
Given how suspicious Judge Motz has been with Novell's case, Novell had better
hope that he never hears about this stuff. If has was "flabbergasted"
that Frankenberg wasn't more involved before, this would make him doubly
flabbergasted that Frankenberg wasn't constantly involved. No doubt Motz would
use Novell's prior knowledge of Microsoft's tendency to use secret calls to say
that Novell shouldn't have been deceived by Microsoft's promises and should have
had a plan in place to deal with that by the time they bought WordPerfect. He
might say that since the harm caused by Microsoft's use of hidden calls should
have already been reflected in the purchase price Novell paid for WordPerfect
and Quattro Pro, Novell couldn't have had any damages.
Mr. Johnson has had enough trouble as it is. He would probably want to strangle
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 10:50 PM EDT |
The judge is allowing Microsoft to lie. The judge knows they are lies. Novel
can prove they are lies, but the judge prohibits any testimony that contradits
Microsoft's lies.
How is this possible? Something is really drastically wrong with the court
system here. There should be a way to immediately go to a higher court and get
this judge removed. He is enabling perjury!
Is this not an impeachable offense?[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 11:49 PM EDT |
PJ:This is 1993, just before Novell bought WordPerfect, and it
looked at the time like the problems would be addressed by the DOJ, and indeed
in due time some of them were. Who would have thought Microsoft would continue
doing the very same thing even after all this?
Anyone who
understood Bill Gates. Stop and think about it. Bill Gates and Microsoft showed
no signs of being cowed at all during the trial. If being on trial didn't
matter, they obviously wouldn't have been close to changing their behavior when
the trial was still only a distant theoretical possibility. Granted, that's
using 20-20 hindsight, but it shows you how far off expecting any change in
Microsoft's behavior would have been.
It's not as if anyone in the management
of competing software companies hadn't had the opportunity to find out about
Bill Gates. He didn't come out of nowhere. It shouldn't have been any surprise
that Bill Gates thought of himself and Microsoft as being bigger than the US
DoJ. [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 12 2012 @ 12:40 AM EDT |
Nice article PJ. It's late here and I just had time to
read it before
shutting down for the night, then realized
your article has stimulated my
thoughts and memories. While
I can't take the time to read "What to Do With the
Microsoft
Monster" at this moment, I will respond to the material you
have
presented.
You brought back memories of 1993. I had just begun my
career as a software developer, so I certainly didn't have
the perspective I
have today. Everything was shiny new, and
though so much was going on around me
in my immediate
environment, I do remember we were all talking about
Microsoft's undocumented calls. We also had a copy of
Schulman book,
"Undocumented Windows".
I remember very well reading that with great
interest,
and talking to my colleagues about it - "Hey - we could use
some of
these calls". It was then explained to me that we
dare not rely on them - they
could be here today and gone
tomorrow.
Reflecting on Bill Gate's career
and ambitions, I now
realize he was a genius, a modern day John D. Rockefeller.
He shares his ambition with all the empire builders who came
before him,
stretching back to the Dawn of Time and beyond.
Though with hindsight
we see the seeds of what he is is
to become very early in his career, I can
imagine it was
several years after founding Microsoft before the vision
came
to him - that he could have it all. He was going to go
for the Brass Ring, and
it would all be his.
I could imagine such a feeling. I am not without
ambitions myself, but my conscience gets in my way.
In the end, I don't
know who is was worse, Microsoft, or
all the people that went along with it
like sheep. Bill
Gates would rationalize that it's just "business", in the
best American tradition like Standard Oil, AT&T, U.S. Steel,
and Monsanto
- all great American companies. Bill Gates is
the personification of the
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Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Thursday, July 12 2012 @ 01:58 AM EDT |
Profile: Anne K. Bingaman; Rousing
Antitrust Law from Its 12-Year Nap
from July 25,
1993
Barely a month in office as the nation's top
antitrust cop, Ms. Bingaman has already begun to turn on the lights in an area
of law enforcement left in the dark for much of the last 12 laissez-faire years.
With her background as a plaintiff's lawyer added to the Administration's
expressed commitment to more aggressive enforcement, 1993 could well mark the
beginning of a new era in antitrust law -- an era that will find it in a
prominent role in international trade policy and the domestic
economy.
"She's going to bring a more activist approach, there's no
question of that," said Robert Pitofsky, a professor at Georgetown University
Law Center, who was considered for the antitrust position and who advised the
Administration during the transition. "Closer calls are going to be decided in
favor of action rather than inaction," distinguishing her era from the Reagan
years.
And then later in LA Times, Aug 2, 1996:
Anne K.
Bingaman, the most aggressive chief antitrust enforcer in more than 15 years,
announced plans Thursday to leave the government in the fall to return to the
private sector.
In a brief letter to Atty. Gen. Janet Reno, Bingaman
said she will step down as assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust
division no later than Nov. 15 "for purely personal reasons." [...]
Not
one to shy from controversy, Bingaman plunged into a case against Microsoft
Corp. after the Federal Trade Commission had deadlocked over whether to pursue a
monopoly case against the giant software company. The Justice Department settled
its case against Microsoft when the company agreed in 1994 to change the terms
under which personal computer makers can install their software.
I
guess some must have been relived when she
left.
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IMANAL
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Authored by: maco on Thursday, July 12 2012 @ 02:16 AM EDT |
Installed a network with heretofore good client. Used Dr
Dos OS. This is when MS changed the system calls so that
software would fail if not on MS.
Client wasn't pissed at MS - he was pissed at me. I had to
eat $3k of the contract, plus loss of all future business
with company and all future recommendations.
People tend to forget there's blood in the path everywhere
people like Bill Gates go - not only large corporations who
were sacrificial "partners" - but the 99% bore the real
brunt of the ruthlessness.[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 12 2012 @ 04:09 AM EDT |
Funny: 4D 53 in ASCII translates to 'MS'. [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 12 2012 @ 02:05 PM EDT |
The AARD code, in my opinion, demonstrates a willful conspiracy to commit a
crime. A crime measured in millions and billions of
dollars.
Schulman stresses that Microsoft had carefully encrypted
this code to disguise its purpose and mode of operation and evade detection, and
that he and another programming expert had cracked the code only by days of
reverse engineering.
The resulting willful conspiracy to let
Microsoft get away with it smells a bit like treason.[ Reply to This | # ]
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