[Am-info] The True Believer

[Mitch Stone]

The True Believer
Can Mike Doyle Do to Microsoft What the Rest of the Computer Industry 
and the Department of Justice Couldn't Do?

By Robert X. Cringely

These are happy days in Redmond, Washington, with Microsoft having 
defeated, coopted, or survived the Department of Justice, depending on 
what side of the issue you stand. Microsoft shares are surging, and the 
future seems bright with only a few more legal speed bumps in the way. 
There are the private anti-trust suits from AOL/Netscape, Sun, and 
others. There are a few class-action lawsuits still pending in 
California, where Microsoft runs afoul of a state anti-trust law. And 
there are the inevitable patent infringement cases that have dogged 
Microsoft for years. These latter lawsuits are the topic of this column.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20021107.html