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...Harvard law professor filed a much-anticipated analysis of the Microsoft antitrust case on Tuesday, suggesting a way the presiding judge could find the company's practices illegal...
Lessig said the current situation is different because the government has accused the company of violating antitrust law, not just a consent decree...
There is "no reason to read an opinion interpreting a consent decree as interpreting the contours of antitrust law," he wrote...
...product company. Pressed on rumors of a Microsoft merger with media content firms such as Viacom, Gates said Microsoft will stick to software design. Industry analysts see the announcement as a preemptive strike against Microsoft's possible breakup into three smaller firms as the result of the government's antitrust case. The thought of a merger that would let Microsoft Explorer guide users to more and more sites filled with Microsoft-owned content terrified business watchdog groups. But by laying out the we'll-concentrate-on-software path, Microsoft gets to cast its own image - as a group of techno...
...when he announced Monday that he had made a $5 billion contribution to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, thus making it the largest charitable foundation in the world. Cynics labeled the move another attempt by Gates to paint himself as a more sympathetic character in Microsoft's ongoing antitrust litigation. The same accusations were made earlier this month when Gates stepped down as Microsoft's CEO, saying he wanted to focus more on his family. And, because a chunk of the Gates Foundation grants go to wiring libraries in poor communities to use the Internet, some conspiracy theorists have...