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...happens, Pearl Harbor Day when David Boies got the news in the Justice Department's war room. Not only was the world's richest man personally accusing him, the government's lead attorney in the Microsoft antitrust case, of trying to destroy his company, but one of the 20 states backing the suit--South Carolina--had also switched sides. As usual, Boies was almost the last to know; he learned about it when a reporter dialed his cell phone looking for a quote. "I find out a lot of what's going on in this case from journalists," jokes...
...Boies perturbed by these developments? Not a bit, he says. Should he be? Well, South Carolina's Republican attorney general Charlie Condon says he broke ranks because the proposed merger of AOL and Netscape proves that Microsoft does not monopolize the PC industry. Because that is the point Microsoft has been earnestly making for two weeks, there was some celebration at the company's glitzy press conference Monday (the same event where Bill Gates, appearing by satellite, accused Boies of being "out to destroy Microsoft...and make us look very...
...that was about as good as it got for Gates last week. By Tuesday, it emerged that Microsoft had donated a hefty $20,000 to the South Carolina Republican Party with the specific instruction that none of it go toward the attorney general's re-election, which was enough to raise doubts about his motivation. Moreover, South Carolina had not pulled enough weight in the case for its withdrawal to ignite secessionist fever. "I wouldn't have been able to identify them as one of the states involved," says Boies...
...with concrete allegations of hyperaggressive businesses tactics streaming in from companies such as Sun, IBM, Netscape, Apple, Intuit, Packard Bell, AOL and now Disney -? on Tuesday the court heard testimony claiming that Microsoft had threatened the Mouse for getting too cozy with Netscape -- one can?t help but get the feeling something unpleasant, if not patently illegal, is going on. At the very least, Gates's image has undergone a downgrade that will take years to make over...
...other pending legal actions against Microsoft -- such as the so-called permatemp suit, a class action suit brought by a group of disgruntled temporary workers -- may have a greater chance of realizing concrete gains, one could also argue that the suit has had a galvanizing affect on the industry as a whole: Witness the dramatic AOL-Netscape deal, and the renewed interest in wacky, alternative computing strategies, such as the free operating system Linux and the so-called networked computer. However long the trial may drag on, in just nine weeks it has already changed the face of history...