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When Bill Gates, Class of 1977, left Harvard after his sophomore year to found his own computer software company--now known as Microsoft--few predicted how successful he would...
...more. Due to my own lack of funds and an overwhelming sense of meta, I have decided to play Steve Jobs to Beetlejuiceis Microsoft. As of now I am officially for hire. I can play games such as iToss the reporter,i iJournalist bowling,i iChant epithets at the young writeri (a personal favorite of my roommates) and any others you might think of. Come on, you know you want to. For the love of God, I need the money! Three loan sharks and a ruthless bookie are after...
...appears Microsoft is calling the government's bluff. Last fall, when District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson took the unusual tack of splitting Microsoft's antitrust trial in half, he gave Bill Gates et al. a chance to hammer out a deal with the Justice Department. But the fact that the second half of the trial commenced on Tuesday after four months of mediation hearings indicates that Microsoft doesn't want to play ball. And Jackson, who's expected to deliver a verdict in the case in about six weeks, seemed intent on letting Microsoft know that if it locks horns...
...Tuesday Jackson likened Bill Gates' firm to John Rockefeller's Standard Oil - the granddaddy of all American trusts - and then rejected as nonsensical a Microsoft line of defense based on copyright protections. But the general thinking is that, barring an unexpected bit of mercy by the court, Microsoft will try to drag the proceedings through years of appeals, by which point the original suit might no longer apply to the software market. But by invoking Standard Oil, which owned 90 percent of the U.S. oil market before it was broken up in 1910, Jackson sent out a warning siren that...
...been in our history and maybe the history of any other country. They smile at us from magazine covers and give us their opinions on television. Their charitable foundations, growing enormously, are taking government's place as the national laboratory for public projects and social innovation. Never mind the Microsoft antitrust suit. The literally murderous personal rage against rich people that was so much a feature of American life at the outset of the 20th century is today almost nowhere to be found...