[Am-info] Gates: Antitrust trial "a waste of resources"

[Paul Rickard]

====== On 06.13.2000 12:48 PM, Mitch Stone typed: =======

>I thought the reference to the Apple look-and-feel lawsuit was especially 
>puzzling and inappropriate. First, this suit did not lead to the $150 
>million investment -- the Quicktime patent infringement lawsuit did, many 
>years later. Second, Gates' suggestion that it was a "waste of resources" 
>is no more than a display of pinpoint accuracy hindsight. Gates came 
>within a hair's breath of losing that one big time, and I'm fairly 
>certain he knows it. The man is one awesome disinformation machine, 
>that's for sure.

    And that look-and-feel victory has since then come about to bite 
Microsoft's ass, since it removed any grounds for them to sue the Linux 
vendors that include a Windows-looking interface with their own systems.



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