William Kovacs
William Kovacs
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This is the first time going back to 1890 in which the key assets of the company to be broken up consist of human beings and ideas. Who can predict what these people will do, and how effective the entities will be?
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Norris, more than anyone else, showed how difference in royalty terms reinforced Microsoft's control over equipment suppliers,
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The thing the dealmakers tend to look at is: 'what did the guy ahead of me in line have to pay to get through?'
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I do think a restructuring of Microsoft would be more complex. That could be a new challenge.
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A more likely scenario, ... is that the Justice Department will let Windows 98 ship but ask the court to schedule a hearing on whether Microsoft should change its behavior.
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The case is important because it will define the rules of the game for the coming decades, ... The Microsoft case will define the rules for the new information economy.
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The company has to abide by the mandate that the court issues. That is, the court says, 'You must do the following, but I am going to give you the burden of finding the best way of accomplish that.'
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The great psychic fear in the Justice Department is that it will achieve a hollow victory, ... There will be this declaration of a violation of the law, but they will not have effective solutions to restore competition.