Word: doj
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...issue, of course, is the line between what Bill Gates can and cannot legally do with Windows, his de facto operating-system monopoly. Klein's team has spent the past year amassing what the DOJ clearly considers persuasive evidence that the software giant's behavior--from restrictive licensing arrangements with its so-called PC allies to me-only marketing deals with Internet service providers and websites--violates the venerable Sherman Act, the bedrock of U.S. antitrust law. Sherman, in essence, says it's O.K. to achieve a monopoly, but not to use one to wedge your way into other lines...
...collapsed. "The government's theories for the personal computer industry," said Microsoft senior vice president William Neukom afterward in the company's combative official statement, "were not in the interest of PC users and would have set a bad precedent for other technology companies in the PC industry." The DOJ's terse statement merely noted that negotiations had "ended without resolution," and "at this point, the talks are not expected to resume." Except, that is, when they're conducted for keeps in front of a federal judge...
...fact that when push came to shove this spring, Gates suddenly started tossing out concessions like bonbons, however, tends to suggest that deep down he's known all along things aren't quite that simple. The past few weeks have been tough on Microsoft. Everyone from the DOJ to foreign governments to a growing band of state attorneys general stood ready to take the company to court. Its latest bumbling p.r. gambit--trotting out computer-industry execs like windup toys to halfheartedly raise the specter of widespread economic disaster should Win 98 be delayed, even for a matter of months...
...spirit of the entire Windows/Explorer row, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has decided to bundle his court dates together. He'll now begin hearing both the Justice Department's request for an injunction against Win98 and the entire antitrust case on the same day -- September 8. While the DOJ was hoping for an immediate injunction, it's happy with a quick two-for-the-price-of-one trial. "It lays to rest any comparison with the IBM case," said Justice counsel David Boise. Indeed, everyone involved will be glad not to suffer a repeat of Big Blue's 15-year court...
...Department of Justice has asked that evidence in its case against Microsoft be sealed. Such a move would allow the DOJ to confer with Microsoft and other companies close to the case to decide which of those documents should be off limits indefinitely. Among the 97 documents in question are e-mails, depositions, contracts with computer makers and internal memos, some of whose contents the DOJ has already leaked, as Microsoft tartly pointed out. But keeping some of the information under wraps could be to the company's advantage -- and a red flag to the news media, which will probably...