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...before the ornery intellect of Stanley Sporkin-a former chief of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission who never learned the meaning of the words "It's none of my business.'' The more Sporkin learned about Microsoft in hearings that began last fall, the less he liked the settlement that Gates and Bingaman had worked out and the role that he, as the reviewing judge, was being asked to perform. "I will not be played for a fool," he warned during a heated session last month...
...Threats to withhold the pre-release version of their new operating system, Windows 95, including two made by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates personally, were detailed in a Feb. 13 letter written by Apple chief executive Michael Spindler to U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin, who was reviewing Microsoft's antitrust settlement. The next day, Sporkin rejected the settlement, though he wrote that Apple's comments were not considered in the judgement. Spindler also said that after Apple had tried for a year to get the software, which it needed in order to develop cross-platform applications, a copy was provided only...
With spring training scheduled to begin this week, the 1995 baseball season remains in jeopardy. When a federal mediator and the President of the U.S. both struck out in their efforts to achieve a settlement of the six-month strike, the White House tossed the issue to Congress. But many lawmakers are reluctant to intervene in labor-management fights that do not involve national security. "We maintain our view that Congress is ill-suited to resolving private labor disputes," said a statement from House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate majority leader Bob Dole...
There will be a settlement to this silliest of strikes, and it will come soon, perhaps within the first couple of months of the regular season...
...Justice Department today fought to resuscitate a proposed antitrust settlement with the software giant Microsoft Corp, asking an appeals court to overturn federal Judge Stanley Sporkin''s rejection of the deal. Attorney General Janet Reno rebuked Sporkin, saying he had overstepped his authority by partially basing his decision on business practices that were not included in the government''s formal charges against Microsoft. If Judge Sporkin''s ruling stands, it could prompt a tougher settlement, requiring Microsoft to let competitors write software for its operating systems, which run some 80 percent of all personal computers. "You have this really bizarre...