Re: Just wondering...

[John N Bryan <johnb@austin.rr.com>]

At 9:56 PM -0600 12/29/98, Eric M. Bennett wrote:


>Chris Pall wrote:
>
>>Microsoft has it's own forum in which it receives no critical review
>>whatsoever - The Wall Street Journal, The millions of dollars in
>>advertising and
>>website ads which flow on a daily basis. It's been uncovered that
>>Microsoft has used it's own money to buy letter writers in order to
>>influence the
>>opinion of newspapers.
>
>Is there proof that they ever actually did this?  I thought they were
>caught before they did it, so they called it off.  (I'm sure they would
>have gone ahead with it if they had not been caught, but the fact is that
>they *were* caught.)
>

Actually, I recall that after first denying it, then admitting
to "something like that", they said they would proceed with parts
of it.  Who is to say they have not?

-JB
John Bryan, johnb@austin.rr.com    http://home.austin.rr.com/johnb/
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 -- Bill Gates to staff, 8/8/97, after Apple made IE its default browser