Word: monopolist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Microsoft was supposed to be an epic ideological showdown--perhaps the greatest since the government broke up John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil trust in 1911. The Department of Justice antitrust chief, Joel Klein, would argue the liberal position that government must intervene when a monopolist abuses its position of dominance in the market. And Microsoft would make the libertarian case that markets work best when they operate freely. But a week into the trial, the real battle seems to be between two warring views of Gates. Is he the brilliant innovator who has brought the wonders of the information...
...heart of Barksdale's testimony was a June 21, 1995, meeting between Netscape and Microsoft to discuss the Internet browser market. It was at that meeting, Netscape says, that Microsoft crossed the line from aggressive competitor to rapacious monopolist. "It was like a visit by Don Corleone," Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen recalled later. "I expected to find a bloody computer monitor in my bed the next day." Barksdale charged in his testimony that Microsoft's goal at the meeting was to illegally divide the browser market, keeping the lion's share for itself. "I have never been...
...will not be the trial of the century--there is already too much competition for that title--U.S. v. Microsoft could be the trial of the 21st century. Redmond's defenders and detractors agree that the case marks a turning point for antitrust law--and for any would-be monopolist of the third millennium. Will the 108-year-old Sherman Act establish a beachhead in cyberspace? Or will antitrust cops be forever banished from the world of bits and bytes? It is not just a Silicon Valley issue, either. "If Microsoft wins," says William Kovacic, an antitrust expert at George...
...world's most feared monopolist, your ruthless predations the subject of a Justice Department probe. So what do you do to get away from it all? Get a cool haircut and party down amongst your fellow geeks. At last week's Comdex, the computer industry's annual Las Vegas hoedown, Wild BILL GATES was feeling the groove at the Harley-Davidson Club on the Strip, dancing with the commoners until the wee hours. To see for yourself, go to ZDNet's PC Week Online zdnet.com/pcweek for a video playback of the Microsoft chairman's floor technique...
...Books. Discounting the relatively pathetic selection offered on its two lower floors, the Coop is still heralded as the textbook king (a.k.a. monopolist textbook hoarder). Why? Harvard gives the Coop a monopoly on the needed texts for all of its classes, except when the professor chooses to purchase elsewhere. Wouldn't it make sense to supply reading lists and class enrollments to all the local bookstores so that students would benefit from price competition...