HOW TO LIVE WITH MICROSOFT.

Soft-Letter, July, 2001

There's an old parable about a scorpion who hitches a ride across a river on the back of a frog, and then stings the frog in mid-river. "Why?" the frog asks. "Now you're going to drown." Says the scorpion: "I can't help myself. It's just my nature."

The past few weeks have not been happy times for anyone who hoped to see a kindlier, gentler Microsoft. The U.S. Court of Appeals effectively gutted the three-year antitrust case against the company, leaving only a few hard-to-prove loose ends for new lawyers at the Justice Department to take back to a new judge. Meanwhile, Microsoft has already begun making meaningless concessions: PC manufacturers will soon have the right to pre-install any browser they want with Windows XP machines. Oops, there really are no...

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