Politech: FC: Review: New antitrust book sides with Microsoft

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21703.html

                     Book Pulls MS Off the Hook
                     by Declan McCullagh 

                     5:30 p.m.  10.Sep.99.PDT
                     Anyone who's followed the US v.
                     Microsoft antitrust trial or heard the
                     angry accusations from rival execs at
                     computer conferences knows the basics
                     of the argument against the world's
                     mightiest software company. 

                     It goes something like this: By leveraging
                     its Windows monopoly, Microsoft
                     dominates other software areas, such as
                     browsers, word processors, and
                     spreadsheets. Network effects take over,
                     consumers get the shaft, and Bill Gates'
                     net worth zooms up another 10 billion
                     dollars, give or take a few decimal points.

                     A new book by two free-market
                     economists, Stan Liebowitz and Stephen
                     Margolis, takes well-argued and careful
                     aim at that idea. 

                     [...]


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