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Authored by: gumnos on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 09:14 PM EDT
s/Microsot/Microsoft/

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Authored by: cbc on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 09:46 PM EDT
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Comes Documents
Authored by: cbc on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 09:50 PM EDT
Please post any documents from Comes vs. Gates here.

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Wow! Novell had better hope Motz doesn't hear about this!
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
anyone who pointed this out to Judge Motz.

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So ...
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?

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Who would know?
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.

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A 1993 Article on Microsoft and...
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 American Dream.

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Profile: Anne K. Bingaman mentioned in the article
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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MS Tricks directly cost me over $3,000 plus lost clients
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.

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Nonfatal error detected: error 4D53
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 12 2012 @ 04:09 AM EDT
Funny: 4D 53 in ASCII translates to 'MS'.

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The AARD code shows conspiracy to commit, in my opinion.
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.

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