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Instead, I would argue that the 2000 New York Yankees is the Microsoft of Major League Baseball. They have created two of the most hated dynasties in the last decade. We moan that they are the manifestations of individual power-trips, that they squash the dreams of lesser-beings...
...opponent, the incumbent Slade Gorton, is old enough at 72 to be grandfather to the average tech geek. Yet he's the best friend Microsoft has in the Senate, where he has tirelessly attacked the Justice Department's lawsuit. The more than $103,000 that Bill Gates and his employees have donated to Gorton is one piece of evidence that he's "the Senator from Microsoft," as he has called himself. "I certainly am proud to have that moniker," says Gorton. He says that on the campaign trail, his zing at the antitrust suit is "one of the best applause...
RealNetworks and Microsoft are business rivals. Real's executives have gone before the Senate to claim Microsoft tried to hurt them. So you might expect this to be an antitrust grudge match. On the surface, at least, it's not. Washington State is so pro-Gates that Cantwell, who served one term in the House, is careful to stress that "they used to call me the Congresswoman from Microsoft." Break it up? No way. "I can stand up and say I know it's a great competitor...
...this most 21st century of races, the allegiance of the competing multibillionaires, Microsoft's Gates and Real's founder Rob Glaser, is not in much doubt. Cantwell may have fought for Gates in the House, but she was voted out in '94. One year later, she was handpicked by Glaser as one of his first 15 employees and then put in charge of the company's best-selling product--Real Player--which happens to take customers from Windows Media Player. Gates, who is less than serene when it comes to competitors, will not be happy to have a Senator with...
...September, the race was too close to call. Feeling stymied and outspent, the typically blunt-spoken Gorton believes the occasion actually calls for campaign-finance deregulation. "In a race like this, I should be able to raise more than $1,000 per individual," he says. "Especially individuals from Microsoft...