[Am-info] Wired's "The Whole Truth"

Paul Rickard pr@ms-bc.com
Wed, 8 Nov 2000 00:26:58 -0500


========== On 11/8/00 12:02 AM, Mitch Stone typed: ============

>Has anyone else picked up a copy of the November Wired magazine? I've 
>been reading the cover article "The Whole Truth and Nothing But the 
>Truth: The Untold Story of the Microsoft Antitrust Trial" as time 
>permits. It's extraodinarily long and detailed and well worth buying, -- 
>well above the usual journalisit standards for Wired, IMO. Get it before 
>the issues sells out, is my advice.
>
>A couple of incidents are telling, including a suprisingly unguarded 
>interview with Ballmer who tells the author in furious and quite 
>uncertain terms that Microsoft licensced Java from Sun with the intend of 
>undermining it. Good stuff.

      The entire article will be online at wired.com/wired/ next Tuesday, 
for those of you who either don't have Wired available locally, or don't 
want to pay to read it. I personally subscribe to Wired, but I stay a 
month or more behind on my reading so it's sitting in a large stack 
behind me.



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