That’s right gang, looks like Bill Gates and his cronies have violated the Sherman Act. Here is the final box score from the ballpark in DC.
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Lawrence Lessig on governance and cyberspace
January 30, 2000 – 12:00 am
[ via Nettime ] Lawrence Lessig was appointed as a special master (think domain expert) during DOJ v. MS. He’s got a new book out about the role of software architecture in the legal construction of cyberspace. I’m pulling several quotes from an interview with him from Feed. This is definitely a book to read. [...]
Top 10 Reasons Gates Stepped Down
January 13, 2000 – 12:00 am
From the home office in the South of Market District, Salon’s wiseasses post their top 10 reasons Gates resigned. 2. Needed more time to learn Linux.
Dan Gilmore on the AOL/TimeWarner Merger
January 10, 2000 – 12:00 am
[ via Scripting News ] I agree with Dan Gilmore’s assessment of the the AOL/TimeWarner merger: if you’re a shareholder it’s great, if you’re a customer it’s bad. However, even the shareholders have to get their news and information from somewhere. If AOL, Time and CNN are touting the virtues of the merger: who will [...]
The end of the Microsoft Era can be the beginning of the Age of Open Software
November 15, 1999 – 12:00 am
Eben Moglen, the Free Software Foundation’s Chief Counsel, says the remedies to apply against Microsoft will not have to be as extreme as the critics of the rulings in DoJ v. Microsoft believe.
Dan Bricklin on the Talmud and DOJ v. Microsoft
November 10, 1999 – 12:00 am
Dan Bricklin applies scripture and the commentaries to the Microsoft antitrust case: “These discussions, taking place between 1,500 and 1,800 years ago, get into some of the same areas covered in the MS/DOJ case.”
Critiques of Libertarianism
November 5, 1999 – 12:00 am
Handy bookmark to have when you’re under saturation bombing from Ayn Rand quoters on /.
Is Existence of Monopoly Power Alone Illegal Under US Antitrust Law?
November 5, 1999 – 12:00 am
Is Existence of Monopoly Power Alone Illegal Under US Antitrust Law? No. In US vs. ALCOA, the court found that ALOCA had a monopoly, but gained it legitimately.
Local Mirror of MS Antitrust Case Findings of Fact
November 5, 1999 – 12:00 am
I’ve put up a mirror copy of the Judge’s findings of fact in the MS Antitrust Case. Link
Metcalfe’s Law in Reverse (Jacob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
July 29, 1999 – 12:00 am
[ via Scripting News ] Jacob Nielsen chastises several companies for trying to wall-off portions of the Internet. His analysis is correct: in that trying to isolate customers, and tie them to your portion of the network reduces the whole value of the network. Unfortunately, even if @Home or AOL can only isolate a small [...]
Patents as Strategy
July 20, 1999 – 12:00 am
Patents, conceived to protect the investments of individual inventors, are now strategic weapons used by establish firms to quash rivals, and by startups to defend their niches in the market. [ the Merc will make this story pay per view after 7/24 ]
J. William Gurley on Patents
July 8, 1999 – 12:00 am
[ Cnet via Garage.com ] J. William Gurley thinks that business model patents are less about protecting IP assets and more about extracting monopoly rents from customers and competitors.
You-Know-Who-Soft threatens User Friendly
March 31, 1999 – 12:00 am
I hope this is an April Fool’s joke. A large software company in Washington State, generaly considered to hold near monopoly power in the OS market, has threatened the creators of the Web comic User Friendly with litigation because they parodied one of their products. This wouldn’t stand up to scrutiny if it went to [...]
Strategic Patent Suites [ via Tomalak ]
December 28, 1998 – 12:00 am
If you allow patents to be defined broadly, then expect to see premptive litigation to block rivals from the market. The same thing happened at the turn of the century when Curtis was granted a broad patent on aircraft control surfaces. The infant aviation industry was paralized until the Congress worked out a deal — [...]