|
Re: Suggestion for Breaking Microsoft's Monopoly
de Anonymous 05/28/2006 02:59
On 5/28/2006, DaveH wrote:
> socrtwo,
> You need to study your history. MS has been tried and convicted of having a
> monopoly. After spending hundreds of millions of dollars to convict
> Microsoft, our illustrious president took office, appointed John Ashcroft as
> Attorney General and proceeded to effectively drop the case. And we reelect
> him - go figure!
>
> Dave H.
Hi Dave,
May I add a small correction here?
MS was tried and convicted during the Clinton administration, with
Janet Reno as the Attorney General, and she was famous for the Branch
Davidians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_Davidians) and the
Gonzales boy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elian_Gonzales).
Microsoft was ordered by the Federal judge(s) to remedy the
situation(s), and MS (figuratively) flipped the government their
collective middle finger and walked away laughing at the Federal court
and prosecutors.
President Bill Clinton did nothing to enforce the Federal order, and
Janet Reno found easier and less-expensive ways to get her name in the
newspapers.
Janet Reno spent those "hundreds of millions of dollars to convict
Microsoft," and then she did nothing to enforce the judge's order.
After the entire issue was long gone, THEN George Bush was elected to
the office of President and appointed John Ashcroft as the Attorney
General. Bush and Ashcroft have committed their share of sins---to be
sure---but refusing to enforce the Microsoft conviction was not one of
those sins. That responsibility was on the Clinton administration and
Janet Reno's Justice Department.
Has anyone noticed that we don't talk about the sins of the Clinton
years nearly as much as we talk about the sins of the Bush years?