Word: doj
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ongoing practice of rolling new technologies into its operating systems, a process that makes each new version of Windows better and more powerful but also, Klein and his adherents argue, tends to discourage innovation outside of Microsoft's Redmond campus. In fact, what is most striking about the DOJ suit is how much of the perceived Microsoft problem the filing doesn't tackle and how many possible remedies Klein didn't request: an outright breakup of the company, say, or a court-ordered "Chinese wall" between its operating-system and application development efforts. Sun CEO and No. 1 Gates antagonist...
...have an eager audience in Silicon Valley's cabal of anti-Gates activists, who have spent the past year aiding and abetting a DOJ investigation that was going nowhere before they stepped in and started guiding it last summer. A source close to the project told TIME how, under guarantees of anonymity lest Gates learn of their betrayal, Microsoft's rivals (and some of its partners) led Justice to specific documents and officials at one firm after another. "We knew whom to direct Justice to at IBM, Compaq and Gateway, because we'd all shared beers at computer conferences together...
This guidance could be startlingly specific. Last summer the DOJ issued a series of subpoena-like civil investigative demands to nearly a dozen Microsoft customers, requesting information and documents, including e-mail, sales data and meeting notes. The narrowly written requests, carefully shaped by Justice's allies, demanded items of such specificity that when the Feds arrived, there was little the recipients could do but swallow hard and hand over the goods. "We really laser-beamed it in on them so there was nowhere to move," says an executive who aided the probe. "We tried to make sure it wasn...
...those s.o.b.s get to watch and wait, just like the rest of us. In this era of megamergers, Joel Klein already has plenty of antitrust enforcement on his plate. Last week he announced his intention to fight a proposed partnership between American Airlines and British Airways; the DOJ's case against the proposed merger of Lockheed-Martin and Northrup-Grumman also begins this September; and the chipmaker Intel is said be next in the cross hairs of his colleagues over at the FTC. But the resolute Klein seems determined to make Gates a test case for reinterpreting the 19th century...
...example, Netscape asked Microsoft for the advance information its programmers would need to make the Netscape browser run properly with Windows 95. According to Clark, Microsoft refused unless it got a piece of the company and a seat on the board. Netscape finally decided to go to the DOJ through its outside counsel, Gary Reback...