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

[Dan Strychalski]

Mitch Stone (mitch@accidentalexpert.com) wrote --

> 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.

Graham Lea has a two-part summary in _The Register_:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14214.html
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/14213.html

One passage in particular caught my eye:

    ...[I]n 1993, after Clinton's election, Gates said in all
    seriousness at a dinner: "Of course, I have as much power
    as the president has"....

Note the date. Sure, he could squash products and make or break
companies in his industry. Does that warrant such a boast? I don't think
so. I don't think Gates thinks so, either. It might be instructive to
think about what kind of power he had in mind.

Dan Strychalski