[Am-info] query about MS "Innovations"

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.03.31 04:00 PM, Mitch Stone typed: ============

>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.

   Ok, I'll say it. I am disappointed in the Bush administration's 
handling of the Microsoft case. Ideally they would have continued it with 
the same force as before, or more, but that's not what happened. The case 
wasn't well built to begin with, since the problem in question was the 
bundling of a Web browser with an outdated operating system better than 
five years ago now, but it could have been fixed. I don't know why it 
wasn't fixed. But I believe the problem is a lack of knowledge or the 
appointment of people with a lack of knowledge instead of a massive 
conspiracy theory like some here have hinted about.


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