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What's crazy is that this statement should have been anything but boring. It was Rudenstine's first public effort to stave off pressure for a living wage. His tactic, however, was dull writing, designed to convince the reader that poverty on our campus is just a mundane, technical issue that literally can be left to the boss. Specifically, Rudenstine explained in 550 words that he has a committee looking into things...
...doesn't ban monopolies, even those as potent as Windows. But Microsoft crossed the line, Judge Jackson held, when it used Windows in a "predatory" way to protect its monopoly and build new ones. A key Microsoft tactic: adding features to Windows. Microsoft originally developed its Explorer Web browser as a separate consumer item, but then it decided to include--or bundle--the browser in Windows in 1995. The upshot was that Windows users got a free browser when they bought their PC's--making it awfully hard for Netscape to persuade them to buy its competing program...
...attendees in Seattle from Third World countries agreed with some of the protesters' points, making it easier to disrupt the meeting there. All of which means the police action could be a bit of overkill. Shutting down the staging area looked petty, and it's not a tremendously effective tactic against a protesting organization with few, if any, recognizable leaders and a diffuse management structure. Most of this organization from this movement comes from its various web sites. And there are no codes against that...
...said their tactic was simple: they manipulated the price of the Windows operating system to punish reluctant computer companies into complying with Microsoft policies...
...said, "I won't cooperate." Neither will his media-savvy daughter Marisleysis, 21, who tearily portrays herself as Elian's new mom. And no one at Justice seems to have a clue about how to break a "human chain" of thousands of angry exiles--who practiced the resistance tactic last week--and pluck Elian from Lazaro's home without setting Miami ablaze in violent protests...