From: Christian Goetze <cg@miaow.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 11:39:10 +0800
To: Glenn Hauman <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Microsoft's compelled speech, compelled marketing
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At 09:04 PM 11/25/97 -0500, Glenn Hauman wrote:
>
>At 12:40 PM -0500 11/25/97, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
>>Former NY Times and Newseek reporter David Burnham writes in his book about
>>the Justice Department: "The record is clear. Political campaign
>>contributions, personal bribes and other direct and indirect favors have
>>frequently influenced important Justice Department disions about the
>>enforcement of law... Virtually every administration has demanded that the
>>Justice Department bend the law..."
>
>Hold it-- are you suggesting that the DOJ is being restrained in going
>after Microsoft? By who?
I suppose that the slant was more like this: either Microsoft pays up and
gets a restrained treatment from the DOJ or else...
--
cg