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Court documents do not record what Bill Gates said to Anne Bingaman on the telephone last July when the software titan and the trust-busting Assistant Attorney General finally struck a deal. Gates had made little secret of his anger at the Justice Department for looking into Microsoft's empire and the sometimes ferocious tactics it has used to build it. At one point during an earlier antitrust investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, Gates lost his temper and started shouting at the commissioners. It was only after the Justice Department issued a "We'll see you in court" ultimatum...
...public statements issued afterward, the relief on both sides was palpable. "We got everything we could have hoped for," said Bingaman. Microsoft, for its part, declared the deal "reasonable," all the while insisting that the company had done nothing illegal and was going along only to avoid what could have been the biggest antitrust case since the government tried-and failed-to break up IBM in the 1970s. All that was required to seal the agreement was a review by a federal judge...
...what Gates and Bingaman could not have foreseen is that the case would land before the ornery intellect of Stanley Sporkin-a former chief of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission who never learned the meaning of the words "It's none of my business.'' The more Sporkin learned about Microsoft in hearings that began last fall, the less he liked the settlement that Gates and Bingaman had worked out and the role that he, as the reviewing judge, was being asked to perform. "I will not be played for a fool," he warned during a heated session last...
...1980s, the reagan Administration was a wallflower at the orgy. Free-market philosophy discouraged government from interfering in corporate combinations. Capital Cities lapped up ABC. R.J. Reynolds gulped Nabisco. Under George Bush the outlook shifted a bit, but when understaffed government lawyers went to court, they mostly lost. Anne Bingaman, Bill Clinton's chief of antitrust, roared into work promising a different world. As a warning shot she got Congress to fund 61 new antitrust attorneys. At a Washington conference a few weeks ago, she gave the word once again to companies that try to corner their markets...
...though he wrote that Apple's comments were not considered in the judgement. Spindler also said that after Apple had tried for a year to get the software, which it needed in order to develop cross-platform applications, a copy was provided only when U.S. assistant district attorney Anne Bingaman, who negotiated the antitrust case, pressured Microsoft to cooperate...