Not to be a doomer but isn't that just a repeat of what happened to Microsoft? And they seem to still be doing fine, I could be wrong. But companies that big seem to just shrug off the government.
It was extraordinarily stupid and if the same precedents were held today for Google and Apple for their mobile apps and operating systems things would be very different.
I get the feeling it was Clinton intimidation directed at Gates to push him to join them or see how much of a hell the government could make life for him and his company.
Not to be a doomer but isn't that just a repeat of what happened to Microsoft? And they seem to still be doing fine, I could be wrong. But companies that big seem to just shrug off the government.
Microsoft just wanted to bundle Internet Explorer with Windows
Facebook wants to bundle Communism in your conversations with grandma
Looking back on it now it seems like a retarded reason for an antitrust suit.
It was extraordinarily stupid and if the same precedents were held today for Google and Apple for their mobile apps and operating systems things would be very different.
I get the feeling it was Clinton intimidation directed at Gates to push him to join them or see how much of a hell the government could make life for him and his company.