39 ordspråk av William Kovacic
William Kovacic
Norris, more than anyone else, showed how difference in royalty terms reinforced Microsoft's control over equipment suppliers,
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Nothing that had real substantive punch in the government's original proposal was watered down. The government's filing today is designed to give Microsoft the sense that the process in the remedy phase was carried out correctly, and it provides the judge with ammunition that he could use as a rationale for the measures contained in his final ruling.
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The appeals court may say it is only talking about Windows 95 in its interpretation of the consent decree, ... It does have an influence. The Court of Appeals will inevitably say something about the appropriateness of Microsoft's 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 chances are greater than zero, but not much. Regardless of who's asking for an injunction, the chances are very remote [that one would be granted in time].
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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 government said Gates personifies everything wrong with the company, ... I infer from that if Gates has a smaller role in the company and Ballmer has a bigger role, that is a somewhat more suitable environment for achieving an agreement.
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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.
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The Justice Department would require an agreement by Microsoft to banish all contracts that prevent equipment manufacturers and Internet service providers from promoting competitors' products. The is the non-negotiable minimum for the Justice Department.
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The more time Microsoft has, it makes it harder [for the government] to establish a remedy that would limit Microsoft's flexibility in selling Windows 98, ... Each month that goes by makes it harder to obtain effective relief.
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The public face was how frightful, but the internal sense of the company was how delightful. There were a number of ambitious managers in charge of the subsidiaries who thought they could manage the company better than the folks at 26 Broadway.
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The states have suggested they want limits on Microsoft's development of WebTV, which they view as an extension of [Microsoft's] products to other new media,
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The states have suggested they want limits on Microsoft's development of WebTV, which they view as an extension of [Microsoft's] products to other new media, ... The states want to forestall Microsoft capturing those technological paths as well.
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The states have suggested they want limits on Microsoft's development of WebTV, which they view as an extension of [Microsoft's] products to other new media. The states want to forestall Microsoft capturing those technological paths as well.
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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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