Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blue-collar bungalows of this lush valley 110 miles south of Portland, all the grownups could talk about was what nurturing, sensible parents Faith and Bill Kinkel had been. All the kids could talk about was how "Kip" Kinkel liked to torture animals, collect guns, build small pipe bombs and joke about killing people...
McNealy may not get that particular wish, but he and his allies are surely hoping for more than they've seen from Justice thus far. "We've been disappointed in the past," a subdued Gary Reback, the Valley's leading anti-Microsoft attorney, said last week. "The government made a start and didn't finish the job. I would hope that doesn't happen again." Although Klein confirmed to TIME last Friday that he has "ongoing investigations into other issues" relating to Microsoft, for the moment he has opted for a surgical strike: bring a tightly focused case today that...
...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...
...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 the company...
...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...