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...Justice Department attorney David Boies accused Microsoft of trying to "change the facts and change the subject." Indeed, nothing in the Clark mail foreshadows what the feds and Barksdale say occurred at the later meeting -- that is, Bill Gates' heavy-handed insistence that Microsoft and Netscape divide up the browser market between them. It's almost as if Bill Clinton had decided to introduce evidence of other philandering presidents into an impeachment inquiry -- interesting, perhaps even mitigating, but ultimately irrelevant. Microsoft's attorneys would like to throw the spotlight on equally dubious business practices elsewhere in the software industry...
WASHINGTON: Is Bill Gates the '90s answer to Don Corleone? The answer is yes, if you believe Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen. After Netscape's infamous June 1995 meeting with the tough-talking software titan and his cohorts, "I expected to find a bloody computer monitor in my bed," the browser whiz kid told Justice Department lawyers. But as the Microsoft antitrust trial enters its third day, Redmond attorneys continue to argue that brutal mafia-speak is no vice in the cuttthroat software industry. "Antitrust laws," said Microsoft counsel John Warden, "are not a code of civility...
...Once that was over, it was Barksdale's turn. The browser boss was intended to be the DOJ's star witness; he was also prepared to rush in where the feds dare not tread by talking about possible remedies, should Microsoft be found to have transgressed antitrust law. The appropriate solution? Not suprisingly, Barksdale wants the court to forever split Windows from Internet Explorer, making the bundling of the two illegal. This is, however, little more than a pipe dream -- not only have antitrust judges been historically reluctant to tamper in product design, but the court of appeals ruled last...
...Kelly has noted, the old-fashioned, small-town lack of privacy was symmetrical. You knew the people who were watching you, and you could watch them back. These days, you are not on a first-name basis with the computers that track your credit-card purchases or your Web browser's wanderings--or with the people who, for all you know, can access those computers. It's this sense of a distant, cloaked observer that's really eerie...
...most eagerly aped businessmen in America -- might seem a risky legal strategy to some. Nevertheless, the DOJ and 20 states are pursuing it with full vigor. Their previous court filings have already accused Gates of personally directing the effort to leverage Windows' monopoly to Microsoft's advantage in the browser market; now the states' lead attorney, Steve Houck, is blasting the billionaire for not being on his own firm's witness list. "Given Mr. Gates's key role in these events," said Houck, "the only explanation for his failure to appear is his lack of intestinal fortitude." Calling Bill Gates...