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...software titan and the trust-busting Assistant Attorney General finally struck a deal. Gates had made little secret of his anger at the Justice Department for looking into Microsoft's empire and the sometimes ferocious tactics it has used to build it. At one point during an earlier antitrust investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, Gates lost his temper and started shouting at the commissioners. It was only after the Justice Department issued a "We'll see you in court" ultimatum-and then let the deadline slip by a day-that Gates finally agreed last summer to settle...
...relief on both sides was palpable. "We got everything we could have hoped for," said Bingaman. Microsoft, for its part, declared the deal "reasonable," all the while insisting that the company had done nothing illegal and was going along only to avoid what could have been the biggest antitrust case since the government tried-and failed-to break up IBM in the 1970s. All that was required to seal the agreement was a review by a federal judge...
Thus the stage was set last week for one of the most bizarre confrontations in the history of American antitrust enforcement-one that could derail the strategic plans of the world's largest PC software company while raising questions about how effectively the U.S.-or any government-can control monopolies carved in silicon, software or the borderless regions of cyberspace...
...software. Threats to withhold the pre-release version of their new operating system, Windows 95, including two made by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates personally, were detailed in a Feb. 13 letter written by Apple chief executive Michael Spindler to U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin, who was reviewing Microsoft's antitrust settlement. The next day, Sporkin rejected the settlement, though he wrote that Apple's comments were not considered in the judgement. Spindler also said that after Apple had tried for a year to get the software, which it needed in order to develop cross-platform applications, a copy was provided...
...Republicans want to keep the government out of things, not get it into things.'' That sounds coherent, but there's a significant slice of hypocrisy here: Congress is largely responsible for the current horror. It long ago stacked the deck against the players by exempting baseball from the antitrust laws, protection no other U.S. business enjoys. If the G.O.P. leadership were serious about getting the government out of things, it would join the call of Senators Orrin Hatch and Pat Moynihan to partly repeal the exemption. Fat chance. Beyond ``the stated reason that this should be resolved by the parties...