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...afternoon, it looked for a couple of days last week as if Bill Gates just might have found a way to slip out of this one relatively unscathed. Early Thursday morning, with only hours left before the press conference at which Attorney General Janet Reno and her antitrust chief Joel Klein were to announce one of the largest and most important antitrust cases in American history, Gates demonstrated the cold-blooded brinkmanship for which he is famous: with no time left on the clock, he suddenly made nice. O.K., he told Klein: Let's talk...
Justice says these were just suggestions, not demands. Regardless, Bill Gates wanted no part of them. Right or wrong, Joel Klein's vision for Microsoft's future violates the principles upon which Gates' entire life's work has been based. If Justice and the states win what now appears to be their inevitable days in court, Microsoft will argue, the result would be a world in which federal judges determine which new software can be legally incorporated into new operating systems--highly technical issues at the heart of Microsoft's, and Silicon Valley's, business. What's more, the booming...
...really have wacky moments. It's just more of finding humor in people and situations. I don't wake up in the morning and say, I'll be wacky today. What do you do to be wacky, Joel...
...Joel Stein...
...Poor Joel Klein. It's less than two days after he spearheaded the Fed-state attack on Microsoft -- the largest antitrust lawsuit of the century -- and the trustbusting assistant attorney general has announced that his cupboard is bare. Apparently a 275-strong legal staff and $95 million in government funding is not enough in these days of monopoly and merger, and Klein requires a budget boost of "certainly several million dollars...