[Am-info] query about MS "Innovations"

[Mitch Stone]

On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 12:17 PM, Paul Rickard wrote:

> ========== On 2002.03.31 10:06 AM, Steve Cohen typed: ============
>
>> Paul -
>> Still with the stupid attempts to tie Al Gore to
>> Gates?  After over a year of seeing what Bush
>> administration antitrust enforcement looks like?
>>
>> I have to ask this, Paul.
>> Have you no shame?
>
>     It's a reference to Gore's claims about the Internet, actually. I
> didn't say anything about Bush or tie Gore to Ms, just Gates and Gore
> have at various times made statements that claim responsibiliy for
> creating or promoting the Internet. I made no mention of President Bush
> or his administration's antitrust policies.

Quite right, you've been notably silent on this matter, as I suppose well 
you should be, since the Bush administration's approach to antitrust law 
enforcement is indefensible at best to people who care about such things, 
and we can remember when you claimed it would turn out otherwise. Never 
mind -- we've been though this all before, including the "Al Gore claimed 
to invent the internet" nonsense, and I surely don't expect more edifying 
results this time. If you ask me, the better part of valor would have been 
not to have made partisan remarks again -- they only invite questions you 
clearly prefer not to answer.


   Mitch Stone
   mitch@accidentalexpert.com