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Capitalism and (Microsoft's) Freedom
by Nicholas Provenzo
(March 2, 2004)
Rather than attack Microsoft, perhaps Mr. Starr should reorient his gaze to the antitrust laws themselves.
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The Meaning of Microsoft's Victory
by Don Luskin
(November 6, 2002)
If corporate defendants begin to factor into their strategies that they just might win -- and if regulators and especially state attorneys general begin to factor into their strategies that they just might lose -- perhaps capitalists won't be in such a hurry to march themselves into the gas chamber at the first threat of prosecution.
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A Letter to the Department of Justice Concerning the Microsoft Antitrust Case
by Joe Wright
(August 16, 2002)
Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Oracle and now AOL want to use the predatory power of government to skew the market in their favor. They want the government to protect them from the free market.
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Microsoft's Crimes Against Humanity: The Wild West World of Antitrust Litigation
by S.M. Oliva
(June 20, 2002)
Now interest groups that have an ax to grind with a company can go forum shopping for states that allow secondary consumers to sue under local antitrust laws.
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Microsoft: Out of the Fire and Back Into the Frying Pan
by Robert W. Tracinski
(September 10, 2001)
The Justice Department has moderated its Clinton-era regulatory bloodlust -- but it is still pursuing the intrusion of the antitrust laws into the free market. That means that Microsoft faces, as the alternative to death and dismemberment, the prospect of slow torture by capricious and unpredictable judicial rulings.
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The President Has Spoken: No Microsoft Breakup
by Don Luskin
(September 7, 2001)
America's top law enforcement agency has decided that it doesn't want to throttle America's most dynamic large corporation.
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The Antitrust Laws Require the Government To Initiate Force Against Innocent Citizens
by Adam Mossoff
(March 1, 2001)
In adjudicating the antitrust laws, courts have enunciated the standard of "consumer harm" as the basis for distinguishing between illegal versus legal business activity. In applying this standard, and its corollary of "protecting competition," the antitrust laws superficially appear to be aimed at the protection of citizens' economic interests.
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Microsoft Assault is an Inept Stab at "Industrial Policy"
by Daniel J. Mitchell
(January 31, 2001)
The Microsoft antitrust suit is a case of politicians destroying one of America's most successful companies just to satisfy the demands of its rivals. If that happens, Bill Gates might want to consider sending the government a message by moving his company to another country.
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Microsoft and the Mythology of Anti-trust
by Thomas Sowell
(January 12, 2001)
The biggest question about anti-trust law is whether there really is any such thing. There are anti-trust theories and anti-trust rhetoric, as well as judicial pronouncements on anti-trust. But there is very little that could be called law in the full sense of rules known in advance and applied consistently.
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Is Microsoft a Hypocrite?
by Andrew West
(December 12, 2000)
Antitrust law replaces the fair voting results of the markets with its own tainted ballots, confusing to read, punched by competitors, stuffed by lawyers into boxes, and counted by the unsteady eyes of unelected bureaucrats. It is no mere coincidence that Microsoft's archenemy David Boies, the lawyer who argued that antitrust laws should overthrow the market's verdict on Microsoft, was down in Florida recently.
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