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Could Bill Gates still have the last laugh? Microsoft's boss reportedly boasted to Intel employees back in 1995 that "this antitrust thing will blow over." Those words have echoed hollowly on each of the Judgment Days since, as Microsoft steadily descended into Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's three circles of hell--branded a monopoly, found in violation of antitrust law and, finally, last week ordered to perform self-dismemberment. But Gates has at least one, and more likely two, lives left in this game--one if the U.S. Supreme Court takes the case immediately, as the Justice Department...
...first glance, the higher courts seem considerably more sympathetic to Microsoft than was Judge Jackson. In 1998 the Court of Appeals dealt the Department of Justice a body blow by reversing Jackson's injunction ordering Microsoft to quit tying its Web browser to Windows. That decision has since been glorified by Microsoft attorneys, who see it as their salvation. But as Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein points out, "The court said it was writing without the benefit of a factual record." Now they've got 78 days' worth of testimony, much of it arguing that Microsoft's motivation was more...
...Keyes), a young man growing up in the early days of rap, longs to be a deejay but has to persuade his mother Bertha (DK Dyson) to let him follow his dreams. Along the way, the show tries to educate the audience about hip-hop history (rap pioneer Kurtis Blow plays a narrator). Strangely, the rap songs in Echo Park are almost incidental; they aren't used to comment on the action or round out the characters. The show is clearly a work in progress, so hopefully some full-fledged rap numbers will be added...
...taken some anxious years of real-world experience for people to figure out that crypto turned loose in cyberspace will not make the world blow up. Crypto's more or less around and available now, and no, it's not an explosive munition. The threats were overblown, much like Y2K. The rhetoric of all sides has been crazily provocative...
...time when there was very little else to talk about. We were fighting over every inch of the globe, from Berlin to Saigon. So, every few years, we would trade beans in Geneva, shake hands for the cameras and thus reassure the world that we were not going to blow...