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WASHINGTON: It's alive! The government's antitrust case against Microsoft lumbers on Wednesday, despite the stake driven into its heart by the $4.2 billion deal between Netscape, America Online and Sun Microsystems. Redmond's legal team tried its best to kill the beast Tuesday, arguing that the formation of what was effectively a two-party system in the software industry made government regulation irrelevant. But the beast refused to die. "If I'm counting it right, [that's] the sixth time during the trial that Microsoft has pronounced the government's case dead," said chief Justice Department attorney David...
...This win-win deal has something for Bill Gates, too. In Washington's federal courthouse, lawyers for Microsoft have jumped at the chance to prove that it's a volatile world after all. How can you have antitrust regulation when that kind of conniving is going on? "This proposed deal pulls the rug out from under the government," said top Redmond attorney William Neukom...
From the preliminary evidence presented in the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust suit against Microsoft and Bill Gates (involving the company's attempts to buy off Netscape, its chief rival in the Internet browser field) [BUSINESS, Nov. 2], it would appear that Microsoft has taken a page out of the Mafia's playbook: You want to remain in business, you have to do it our way or no way. If it is true that Microsoft used these tactics, then it sure sounds similar to extortion. BRUCE L. RIVERS Tucson, Ariz...
Just for the record: in the case of the U.S. v. Microsoft, Justice antitrust chief Joel Klein is not representing my views. Go, Gates! Long live Microsoft! DAVID J. JAFFA West Friendship...
...Microsoft, not surprisingly, is crying foul. Isn't this the same sort of deal that landed us in antitrust court, asked Microsoft legal counsel Charles "Rick" Rule? "Unless [the government is] about to go and criminally charge the Netscape and AOL and Sun people, which they aren't, then they can't claim these kinds of negotiations are improper," he said. Of course, none of these companies have a monopoly like Microsoft's to use as leverage. But the talks may become a vindication of Microsoft's central claim -- that you can't regulate an industry that turns topsy-turvy...