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Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Sep. 9, 1999

Business Welfare Program

By Robert A. Levy Here it is, the centerpiece of the government's crusade against Microsoft, verbatim from its 800-page proposed "findings of fact" deposited with U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson on Aug. 10: "Microsoft substantially impeded the most effective channels of distribution ... and, ultimately, effectively eliminated Netscape as a platform threat." Does anyone, even within the sequestered halls of the Justice Department, really believe that rubbish?

        By Robert A. Levy
        
        Here it is, the centerpiece of the government's crusade against Microsoft, verbatim from its 800-page proposed "findings of fact" deposited with U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson on Aug. 10: "Microsoft substantially impeded the most effective channels of distribution ... and, ultimately, effective...

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