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...products that Microsoft saw as a threat, Microsoft withheld technical support and raised the price it charged IBM for Windows. And Microsoft used its Windows monopoly to help its applications division--the programmers who write software like Microsoft Word--by giving them preferred access to the complex Windows source code. Non-Microsoft programmers have long asked for equal access to the source code--but Microsoft has steadfastly refused to give...
...conduct remedies cited most often by Microsoft's competitors is to force Gates to share the Windows source code. "It would level the playing field and allow programmers to write applications just as good as Microsoft's," says Bob Young, founder and chairman of Red Hat, a Microsoft rival. Microsoft could also be required to license Windows to competitors, who could then sell Windows clones...
...hailed it as "a very significant achievement." That was an understatement. Under the leadership of its brash, brilliant president, Craig Venter, Celera had beaten a big-budget, government-funded program in the race to sequence the human genome--to spell out the molecular "letters" that make up the genetic code embedded...
...addition to his role in the Microsoft case, Lessig recently published a well-reviewed book, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace...
...earnest-looking about those wandering lines and shadings of ink." Some of this apparent earnestness is surely due to the strict laws that still govern letter writing. For all the talk of "netiquette" (which delights Miss Manners), e-mail has yet to succumb to the rule of a similar code: smiley faces and other vulgarities are allowed, and even the most stringent rules of grammar are regularly relaxed...