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...case, of course, is the government's landmark antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. And it's a fair bet the case was at least one of the reasons for Gates' congressional group hug. Two days earlier, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson had issued a toughly worded ruling that did just what everyone expected: it branded Microsoft an "oppressive" monopolist and laid the legal groundwork for imposing what could be draconian remedies in the next few months. It was a sharp blow to Microsoft--the company's shares plunged almost 15% the day of the ruling and helped set off last week...
Lawrence Lessig--a prominent expert on Internet law who advised the judge in the recent Microsoft antitrust trial--announced last week that he will leave his post as Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School to accept a tenured professorship at Stanford Law School...
Lessig's announcement comes less than a month after a ruling in the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit that found the software company guilty of anti-competitive behavior. In that case, Lessig had advised Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that Microsoft's policy of "tying" its web browser with its Windows operating system may have given the company an unfair advantage over its competitors...
...antitrust division of the Department of Justice has maintained a far lower profile in the second half of the 20th century than it did in the first 50 years--which saw the break-up of U.S. Steel and Standard Oil monopolies...
...year before Klein arrived, the antitrust division of the Justice Department collected $40 million in fines each year. It now collects more than $1 billion...