Word: silicon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have an eager audience in Silicon Valley's cabal of anti-Gates activists, who have spent the past year aiding and abetting a DOJ investigation that was going nowhere before they stepped in and started guiding it last summer. A source close to the project told TIME how, under guarantees of anonymity lest Gates learn of their betrayal, Microsoft's rivals (and some of its partners) led Justice to specific documents and officials at one firm after another. "We knew whom to direct Justice to at IBM, Compaq and Gateway, because we'd all shared beers at computer conferences together...
...Northrup-Grumman also begins this September; and the chipmaker Intel is said be next in the cross hairs of his colleagues over at the FTC. But the resolute Klein seems determined to make Gates a test case for reinterpreting the 19th century Sherman Act to apply to 21st century Silicon Valley. If Microsoft loses in court this fall, Windows NT 5.0, due in spring 1999, would be the logical target of a new and far more sweeping federal suit. Indeed, Bill Gates could find himself fending off Justice in perpetuity, a prospect which in turn raises the fear that...
...Netscape always truly doomed? Talk to any successful start-up in Silicon Valley, and you hear the same story, of how one day Redmond comes to visit and makes an offer. "It was like the Mob," recalls Mark Andreessen, the college kid who helped found the company and who, when the boys from Redmond visited Netscape in April 1995, sat there silently transcribing the meeting on his ThinkPad. "It was an offer you can't refuse" is how Andreessen characterized it. His notes, which he turned over to investigators, showed up last week in the Department of Justice's complaint...
Microsoft remembers it differently. Dan Rosen, a top Gates lieutenant who attended the final round of negotiations, recalls the Netscapers as being tense and openly distrustful. He attributes the breakdown to the "culture" of Silicon Valley. "The antibodies floating around in Mountain View were just too powerful to allow even a sensible business deal to blossom," he says...
...states win what now appears to be their inevitable days in court, Microsoft will argue, the result would be a world in which federal judges determine which new software can be legally incorporated into new operating systems--highly technical issues at the heart of Microsoft's, and Silicon Valley's, business. What's more, the booming computer industry is hardly broke, yet the feds want the American people to believe that the time has come to step...