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With time running out before the scheduled release of Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system, the Justice Department and the attorneys general of several states are reportedly preparing to file new antitrust charges against the company as early as next week. The impending release of Windows 98 presents a challenge to prosecutors because it will moot the issue of Windows 95, which will be widely supplanted by the new version. With that in mind the government will soon have to decide whether to block the release of the new operating system as part of a broader lawsuit based on Sherman...
When he was appointed "special master" last December in the Justice Department's closely watched antitrust suit against Microsoft, Lawrence Lessig expected that by spring he'd be the most important person in the court--the expert telling Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson how to sort through the legal and technological issues underlying the complex case. Instead, he's the one being judged. A federal appeals court will decide this week whether he is, as Microsoft claims, too deeply biased against it to make an impartial recommendation...
...bizarre twist in what is already one of the most tangled tales in the history of antitrust. Lessig, 36, a Harvard professor of law, is primarily a constitutional, rather than an antitrust, expert. Nevertheless, he is widely recognized as a leading thinker on how to adapt ancient legal principles to the new digital age. When the Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act last year, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor repeatedly cited his article "Reading the Constitution in Cyberspace" in her separate opinion. He has written famously about the "tyranny of code," how seemingly insignificant details of software design...
...Defense of Microsoft will brave Washington's rush hour, not to mention the nasty glares of enemy lobbyists, to march in front of the federal appeals court and demand an end to the "persecution" of Microsoft. The protestors are free-market, libertarian and objectivist crusaders who want to eliminate antitrust laws, and they've actually garnered more than 4,000 signatures with an online petition supporting Bill Gates's right to hawk Windows without government regulation...
Chief accomplishment: Signed many antitrust laws, including corporation...