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Essays
Production
vs. Force by Robert Tracinski
The Difference Between Bill Gates and Orrin Hatch: One Wields the Power of Production,
the Other the Power of the Gun. Published: Denver Post 4 March 98
The U.S. Government's Assault
on Microsoft by
Glenn Woiceshyn
"Consumers" need protection
from coercive and omnipotent governments--not from the beneficial products that Microsoft
and other companies provide via freedom of competition in a free market. Published:
Capitalism Magazine Jan 98; Ottawa Citizen 7 March 98; Vancouver Sun 21 April 98
Antitrust
Against Justice by Greg Shoom
A brief exposition on the injustice
of Antitrust laws and the irrational motives behind them. Published: Capitalism Magazine
Jan 98
Janet
Reno: Rank Amateur by Jay Allen
Microsoft is so wealthy, it
can hire the best programmers, software designers and marketers in the world. Clearly,
this fosters unfair competition. ... A hiring quota needs to be enforced, limiting
the number of genuises who can work at Microsoft at any one time.
Published: Capitalism Magazine Jan
98
Regulating
from the Bench: How a Federal Judge Held Microsoft Hostage
by Robert Tracinski
What Sporkin wants is to gain control over Microsoft's operations-- to force the
company to seek his approval for every move it makes in the future. This demand calls
on a long tradition in the enforcement of antitrust laws. Published: The American
Republic April 95
Links
The
Brain Thieves: The FTC's Suit Against Intel Is an Attempt to Steal Intellectual Property
by Robert S. Getman
NEW!
Ayn Rand Institute
Hatred of the Good
by Dr. Edwin A. Locke
Ayn Rand Institute
The Injustice Against Microsoft by Richard Salsman
Ayn Rand Institute
The Justice Department's War on Innovation by Robert Tracinski The Intellectual Activist
Antitrust Returns With A Vengeance by Richard Salsman The Intellectual Activist
Microsoft is the victim of a legal mugging
by Paul Craig Roberts (BusinessWeek). Pinch me but this still is America!
Microsoft's Real Crime: Success by
Jeff Jacoby, Jewish World Review
What's Good for Microsoft...by T.J. Rodgers, NY TImes
...can Microsoft really be cheating customers when, at a price of only $99, Windows
98 delivers a more complex program than many million-dollar mainframe software packages
do? For years, Microsoft has enhanced Windows with new features -- spreadsheets,
word processors, fax utilities, etc. -- but somehow it crossed an arbitrary line
by adding a browser...The Justice Department has a point when it complains that Microsoft
has a big marketing advantage when it adds features to Windows. But Microsoft earned
that advantage with years of work and billions of well-invested dollars...
More Links
Short Notes Commentary on Microsoft
(Intellectual Activist)
Choose your Poison by Robert Tracinski
Lawsuits and Cream Pies by Robert Tracinski
Rule By Non-Definition by Robert Tracinski
Microsoft Dollars, IRS
Guns by Robert Tracinski
The Case For Microsoft
by David Henderson (Red Herring)
Reno Rewrites Your Operating System
by Peter Huber (Forbes)
The DOJ's Unjustifiable Inquisition
of Microsoft
by Adam Thierer (Heritage)
Who Decides What Innovations Go
Into Your PC?
by Bill Gates
MICRON Responds To The DOJ Memo
by Micron Computer (Micron)
Newspaper
Micromanaging the Market
Detroit News (24 Oct 97)
[The DOJ's case] is a colossal waste
of taxpayer's money and an abuse of government powers.... Microsoft appears only
to be guilty of benefiting consumers by offering more technology at a lower price....
So weak a case suggests ulterior motives at play. Perhaps Ms. Reno believes acting
tough against Microsoft can blunt embarrassing disclosures about the lapses in her
investigation of Democratic fund-raising improprieties.... Ms. Reno would do a lot
better to dedicate the appreciable resources of the Justice Department to real problems--illegal
fund-raising, for example--rather than trying to make villains of capitalist heroes.
Microsoft: Integration is goodness
Mercury (22 Oct 97)
Managing Technology: Browser In Defense of Microsoft
Globe and Mail (22 Oct 97)
Microsoft Under Attack, But Who Is It Hurting?
USA Today (23 Oct 97)
Who has Microsoft so grievously harmed to earn such condemnation? Not computer makers.
Microsoft's packaging of its Web browser costs them nothing. Indeed, Dell, IBM and
other computer makers say they'd ask to put in the browser if it weren't part of
the package. Not other browser firms. Netscape, Microsoft's main rival, has seen
its share drop from 80% of the browser market to about 60%. But its profits are up.
They beat expectations by 50% last quarter. Meanwhile, new browser companies are
building on Microsoft's to provide faster applications. And, up to now, not consumers.
They are getting more software for the lowest possible price: nothing. And with computer
makers providing deals to install Netscape and other browsers as well, they are hardly
being denied free choice, either. Indeed, the injuries that the Justice Department
complaint indicates have been wrought are hard to find.
Washington Is a Hammer And Everything Is a Nail
Wall Street Journal (25 Nov 97)
Justice Department has no case against Microsoft
Atlanta Journal (2 Nov 97)
Big Doesn't Mean Evil:
Microsoft bashers forget about its hard work
Atlanta Journal (23 Oct 97)
We Will All Pay The Price If Microsoft Loses
InternetWeek (3 Oct 97)
In The Government's View, Americans Are Unable
To Say Either "Yes" Or "No" To A Measly Little Icon
Knight-Ridder/Tribune (Oct 97)
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