Re: Hatch wants Gates back

[Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>]

Yes, yes. Something can be unlawful without being a crime. Like I said,
who's charging Microsoft with a crime? Fantasies don't count.

-Declan


On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Dan Strychalski wrote:

> 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
>