Word: monopolistic
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...landmark antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. And it's a fair bet the case was at least one of the reasons for Gates' congressional group hug. Two days earlier, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson had issued a toughly worded ruling that did just what everyone expected: it branded Microsoft an "oppressive" monopolist and laid the legal groundwork for imposing what could be draconian remedies in the next few months. It was a sharp blow to Microsoft--the company's shares plunged almost 15% the day of the ruling and helped set off last week's rout of tech stocks...
BILL GATES Judge sez he's predatory monopolist. Hit ESC, cop a plea and finish cleaning Windows...
...hands. "What does it say?" asked an eager Joel Klein, head of the division, who was waiting in his conference room with the government's trial team. "I'm on page 16," replied the lawyer who was speed-reading his way through, "and it says they're a monopolist!" "Great!" said Klein. "Keep reading...
...exceedingly dark portrait of one of America's most admired companies. The Microsoft of Judge Jackson's narrative is a deep-pocketed bully that uses "its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm" companies that presume to compete with it. And it presents Gates as a law-flouting monopolist who makes a "threat" to one rival considering getting into the software market and "berate[s]" and then "retaliates" against an executive from another company who dares to criticize Windows...
...strengthen the free market. The new economy--and America's unprecedented run of growth and prosperity--has been fueled to a significant degree by small start-ups founded by entrepreneurs with big dreams. These are precisely the sort of companies that can be crushed most easily by a brutal monopolist. When antitrust law works right, it can give these enterprising small firms room to grow. "There are a lot of companies that have for years operated in absolute terror of Microsoft," says Sun's Morris. The ruling, he predicts, will prevent "the dead hand of Microsoft from stifling competition...