Re: Microsoft's compelled speech, compelled marketing

At 12:40 PM -0500 11/25/97, Declan McCullagh wrote:

>Former NY Times and Newseek reporter David Burnham writes in his book about
>the Justice Department: "The record is clear. Political campaign
>contributions, personal bribes and other direct and indirect favors have
>frequently influenced important Justice Department disions about the
>enforcement of law... Virtually every administration has demanded that the
>Justice Department bend the law..."

Hold it-- are you suggesting that the DOJ is being restrained in going
after Microsoft? By who?


Best-- Glenn Hauman, BiblioBytes
       http://www.bb.com/

My point is the same as Ed Black's, and (I believe) David Burnham's: 
Antitrust investigations as important as this one cannot be divorced from
politics. I suppose a corollary to that is that MSFT's competitors should
be wary of calling for the Feds to step in; that can backfire when MSFT
increases its lobbying efforts and turns the tables.

-Declan

On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Glenn Hauman wrote:

> At 12:40 PM -0500 11/25/97, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> 
> >Former NY Times and Newseek reporter David Burnham writes in his book about
> >the Justice Department: "The record is clear. Political campaign
> >contributions, personal bribes and other direct and indirect favors have
> >frequently influenced important Justice Department disions about the
> >enforcement of law... Virtually every administration has demanded that the
> >Justice Department bend the law..."
> 
> Hold it-- are you suggesting that the DOJ is being restrained in going
> after Microsoft? By who?