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Although the themes were disparate, Nesson saidthe topics were linked by their importance to thecreation of a "commons" on the Internet in orderto prevent computers from driving a wedge betweeninformation haves and have nots...
...after Habibie's swearing in, when hundreds of Muslim protesters forced their way into Parliament to confront students still demonstrating for greater democratic reforms. They advanced shouting, "Muslims must support Habibie!" and "Religion and politics are one and the same!" The security forces had to intervene to prevent a serious riot from breaking...
...legal debate this fall will center in part on similar questions: whether the DOJ's remedies would actually prevent consumer harm, as opposed to merely promoting one company's fortunes at another's expense. Asked whether the PC vendor Packard Bell would want to buy Windows at a discount if it didn't include Explorer, a spokeswoman was skeptical. "Would customers want to pay less for a computer without an integrated browser," she mused, "or do they prefer to have an integrated, simple way to surf the Internet?" Microsoft dependents always speak carefully in public, but her implication is clear...
...court-ordered "Chinese wall" between its operating-system and application development efforts. Sun CEO and No. 1 Gates antagonist Scott McNealy tossed out his own provocative suggestion last week: make Gates sell his interests in the many companies he's bought into in recent years and prevent him from scarfing up anyone new for 10 years. "They talk about all their innovation," says McNealy. "Well, let them innovate, and not take their monopoly currency--their cash--and go buy somebody, bundle them and then waste everybody else...
...taken two separate products--the operating system and the browser--and illegally tied them together. In order to make sure this market doesn't tip and become a monopoly, we thought the most effective, immediate relief would be to ensure carriage for Netscape as the only company that can prevent monopolization...