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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...
...program is not without its powerful supporters, both in and out of the classroom. Silicon Valley, whose executives Gore is ardently courting, is particularly enthusiastic about the idea of wiring the vast, untapped market that Andrew Blau of the Benton Foundation, a nonprofit group that studies the social impact of technology, describes as "like China within our borders." To enlarge this new customer base, companies have offered seminars, free software and help with the applications that schools must make to receive the funding. Industry sources have estimated that $2 billion spent on wiring schools produces as much as $6 billion...
...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...
...cool guys is that they hold on to their rebelliousness long after it's romantic. The problem with some squares is that they lose the boy inside them altogether. But perhaps we're moving past the old dichotomies. Soon they'll become meaningless distinctions like mind and body. In Silicon Valley nerdiness is cool. Using drugs, once a sign of coolness, is considered square. Isn't it better, after all, to be a mixture, a cool square, a square cool...