[Am-info] Microsoft's chief lawyer calls it quits

[Roy Bixler]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 01:40:34PM -0400, Gene Gaines wrote:
> See:  http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-944721.html
> 
> Reuters, July 18, 2002
> 
> William Neukom, Microsoft's chief attorney who led the software
> giant's defense against federal antitrust charges, on Wednesday
> said he will rejoin his former law firm as a partner.
> 
> 
> 
> Interesting.  He has been with Microsoft for 20+ years.
> 
> He has said he wanted to leave Microsoft since they thought a
> sweet give-away deal had been negotiated with the Justice
> Department, then that started to go sour, and he stayed on.

It sounds like his way of saying "if the sweet give-away deal I
negotiated last year goes sour, that's too bad."

-- 
Roy Bixler <rcb@bix.org>
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
                -- Ziggy