Re: Hatch wants Gates back

[Dan Strychalski <dski@cameonet.cameo.com.tw>]

Declan McCullagh (declan@pathfinder.com) asked in 
<http://www.essential.org/listproc/am-info/msg05161.html> --

> [...] Who, exactly, charged Microsoft with a *crime*?

You rang?  I'm still waiting for an answer to my question about why
Microsoft's competitors avoided the key combinations Bill disapproved
of. Meanwhile, don't forget Ms. Reno:

<http://maclabbet.orebro.se/nyheter/9710.html>:
   Så här säger överåklagaren Janet Reno (enligt CNN):

   -"Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to
   protect and extend that monopoly and to undermine consumer choice.
   The Department of Justice will not tolerate that kind of conduct. "

<http://mis.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa102097.htm>:
   In the DOJ press release Attorney General Janet Reno is quoted as saying
   "Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to
   protect and extend that monopoly and undermine consumer choice." She is
   prepared to back up that statement by taking the following actions:

<http://www.pathfinder.com/@@O0mo8gYAKTH5aGC4/time/magazine/1997/dom/971103/
business.will_reno_bra.html>:
   The strong-arming in question this time around is Microsoft's charming
   practice of requiring its hardware partners to plant its Web browser,
   Internet Explorer, onto the desktop of every PC they make, or lose the
   right to sell Windows 95 computers--which, since Windows operating systems
   now run some 85% of PCs in the U.S., is roughly equivalent to going out of
   business. Microsoft, Reno said, "is unlawfully taking advantage of its
   Windows monopoly to protect and extend that monopoly and undermine consumer
   choice." In other words, it's O.K. to be a monopolist only if you don't act
   like one. Reno is asking the federal district court to order Gates to drop
   the Explorer demand or pay the startling fine of $1 million a day.

[URL unknown]:
   Special Event

   Attorney General Janet Reno Holds News Conference on an Anti- Trust
   Investigation of Microsoft

   Aired October 20, 1997 - 1:00 p.m. ET

   LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR: Attorney General Janet Reno is addressing
   an anti-trust matter at the Justice Department. We're coming in a
   little bit late. The word Microsoft has been mentioned. Let's
   listen to what it's all about.

   JANET RENO, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL: Microsoft is unlawfully
   taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and extend that
   monopoly and to undermine consumer choice. The Department of
   Justice will not tolerate that kind of conduct.

Dan Strychalski                             dski@cameonet.cameo.com.tw