Barton Crockett's MSNBC Coverage

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

MSNBC seems to be doing a good job of covering the trial, at least judging from
this dispatch by Barton Crockett.  Today's Intel testimony also points to an
area DOJ's lawyers are focusing on, Microsoft's threat to the Internet itself. 
Since this is the real issue that has alarmed many people, the government may be
planning to use David Farber or other Internet experts to talk about this a bit
more.  If this is a Microsoft vrs the Internet case, which is how we see it, it
will be interesting to see how the Court of Appeals could claim consumers were
not going to be harmed by the destruction of the Internet as an open
platform.    Jamie

http://www.msnbc.com/news/213478.asp

Intel exec: Microsoft aimed to splinter Web

          
    McGeady says software giant intended to make
    parts of Web invisible to competitors? browsers
          
By Barton Crockett
      MSNBC          

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 -  Microsoft wanted to "Balkanize"
the World Wide Web so that competitors' browsers would no
longer be able to view all Web pages, an Intel executive asserted
in a second day of testimony at the Microsoft antitrust trial. The
executive, Steven McGeady, testified that senior Microsoft
officials said in a 1995 meeting that they intended to use their
influence over the computer industry to "kill HTML by
extending it." The payoff would have been to promote
Microsoft technology by subverting the basic page-viewing
technology of the Web.

  [snip]

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