The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Where are we going, and what are we doing in this handbasket? It sure is getting warm...
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Thursday, April 18, 2002

Fortune.com | How Microsoft Conquered Washington

It is getting to government officials early and stopping them from asking the questions that could eventually cause it harm. Microsoft execs say privately that they believe they could have prevented the antitrust suit had they co-opted the policy debate sooner. So their goal now is, in essence, to win silence on issues that matter to the company... And on issues from privacy to piracy, Microsoft may well be succeeding.
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CNET.com | Microsoft funds witness's research

An economist testifying for Microsoft in its antitrust case conceded on Wednesday that all the research he's published on the software industry since 1998 has been at least partly funded by the software giant. [...] The states' lawyer, Steve Kuney, told federal court on Wednesday that Murphy did little work in the antitrust field until he began working for Microsoft as a consultant in 1998.
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