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Klein, who is the Assistant U.S. Attorney General in charge of the antitrust division of the Department of Justice, convinced a federal judge last week that the Microsoft Corporation had violated U.S. anti-trust laws...
...America, described on its website as a "no-compromise gun lobby," has called for a boycott of Smith & Wesson, and one wholesaler has said it will stop buying the company's guns. This has prompted the attorneys general in three states--New York, Connecticut and Maryland--to launch an antitrust investigation into whether the gun industry is colluding to punish Smith & Wesson...
...Microsoft cafeteria in Redmond, Wash., the government's antitrust suit against the company is frequently discussed among people who (like me) have no inside knowledge of what is actually going on in the negotiations. Slate, the online magazine I edit, is owned by Microsoft, so discount anything I say accordingly as you please. But having lived and worked among them for four years, I have found the attitude of folks inside the company pretty interesting, and maybe you will too. Not people like Bill Gates, or those who write the legal briefs and press releases, but the ordinary software developer...
...State four years ago, a friend at Justice gave me a DOJ baseball cap as a joke. I wore it last Halloween, calling it the scariest costume I could think of. But many people didn't think that was very funny. The sense of grievance was too raw. DOJ antitrust chief Joel Klein is actually a friend of mine. (He's not the one who gave me the hat.) When I tell people this, they are sometimes amazed--not at my brazen name dropping or at the idea that I once traveled in such august circles but at the implication...
...personification of arrogance and unreason, and of a powerful institution that is misusing its power. Klein and Attorney General Janet Reno and the DOJ, in other words, are regarded in Redmond as cartoon figures, rather like the image of Gates and Microsoft projected by rivals and echoed in the antitrust suit. Each side holds this cartoon view of the other but cannot fathom why anyone would hold such a cartoon view...