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...used Windows to punish companies that crossed the software maker. When IBM insisted on developing products that Microsoft saw as a threat, Microsoft withheld technical support and raised the price it charged IBM for Windows. And Microsoft used its Windows monopoly to help its applications division--the programmers who write software like Microsoft Word--by giving them preferred access to the complex Windows source code. Non-Microsoft programmers have long asked for equal access to the source code--but Microsoft has steadfastly refused to give...
...conduct remedies cited most often by Microsoft's competitors is to force Gates to share the Windows source code. "It would level the playing field and allow programmers to write applications just as good as Microsoft's," says Bob Young, founder and chairman of Red Hat, a Microsoft rival. Microsoft could also be required to license Windows to competitors, who could then sell Windows clones...
...movie. The Giffords claim the story is a fabrication. When asked if it was odd for a 10-year-old to file a lawsuit, Gifford's attorney Barry Langberg said, "It is a little unusual, but then again, it's unusual for a tabloid to write an article about a 10-year-old. Not just unusual, but disgusting." In February, Kathie Lee announced that she was leaving Live with Regis and Kathie Lee in part to shield her children (she also has a daughter, Cassidy) from the media; allowing her elementary-school-age son to embroil himself in a lawsuit...
...watching the stuff you're doing, and I think you're a lot like me. You're gonna be frustrated like I was, 'cause you're gonna want to do it yourself. I wanted to tell you, don't wait. 'Cause I waited too long. If you're gonna write and direct, just...
...Philosophy. Basically, studying philosophy is learning how to write clear sentences about nothing. [laughs] No-about something or nothing. And that's a skill that you can't have enough of. The ability to write clear expository prose is a skill that is useful in every walk of life. Today, you have to be a businessman, even as an artist, and you have to be able to get ideas across clearly. If I got nothing else out of college than to have spent four years writing expository prose, then it was worth it. That's something I really feel...