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Violence by the government escalated after Shell expressed concern over its stability. A memo from the Rivers State Internal Security Task Force, dated May 12, 1994, states: "Shell operations [are] still impossible unless ruthless military operations are undertaken." The memo also recommended the "wasting" of Ogoni leaders...
...assuming Clinton wouldn't dare veto it. The President did, within minutes of its landing on his desk, and the Republicans were blamed for flood victims' getting stranded. A coup ensued, but Gingrich prevailed, primarily because there was no obvious candidate to replace him. His response: a 12-point memo on the lessons to be learned from the disaster-relief disaster. Lesson One: "In dealing with Clinton, you must never put yourself in a position where he can be compassionate or self-righteous...
Here's one memo you don't want to be caught red-handed with, especially if your name is Bill Gates: "We need to continue our jihad next year." The author was Microsoft executive Brad Chase, the year was 1996, and the subject was the battle for the Internet browser market with rival Netscape. Given that Microsoft is now accused of throwing antitrust law to the wind in the single-minded pursuit of controlling that market, such language doesn't look too good. So, Mr. Gates, what exactly did Mr. Chase mean by jihad? "I think," the software boss told...
...quality software that created incompatibilities," Gates says with a shrug on the video. Grove?s account sounds a little more ominous: "We basically caved," he told Fortune magazine later that year. "Life?s too short" to introduce software that Microsoft doesn?t support, he added. Throw in a 1995 memo written by Intel VP Steven McGeady, the government?s latest witness, in which "Gates made vague threats of support for other platforms," and you have allegations strikingly similar to those leveled by Apple and Netscape. Whatever the final outcome, Redmond will find it hard to shake the mafiosi image...
Justice contends that it was Microsoft's aggressive use of its market power--not the quality of its browser--that accounts for Internet Explorer's rapid growth at Netscape's expense. To make the point, Justice unveiled a memo from Hewlett-Packard complaining that Microsoft had prohibited it from installing Netscape if it wanted to keep installing Windows on its computers. "We are very disappointed," an H-P manager wrote. "From a consumer perspective, it is hurting our industry. If we had another choice of another supplier, based on your actions here, we would take...