IP: Antitrust

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:12:06 -0700
>To: jwarren@well.com
>From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
>Subject: Re: Antitrust
>
> From a friend:
>
>>         If you weren't happy with the recent outcome of the Microsoft 
>> case and want to enjoy the pleasure of seeing Gates and his crew carted 
>> off to prison by the Feds, then you don't have wait.  There is a pretty 
>> good film that came out earlier this year where all this happens.  It's 
>> 'Antitrust' <http://us.imdb.com/Title?0218817> and stars Tim Robbins (as 
>> a character so close in looks and manner to Bill Gates that you have to 
>> blink twice) who runs a company so like Microsoft (its in the Pacific 
>> Northwest) that I don't see how they got away with getting this film 
>> into distribution!  It was released by MGM, so this is not a small 
>> independent film.  Heck, there is even a Steve Ballmer clone in the 
>> film, plus other things like a MS campus clone and a Gates home 
>> clone.  The heros of the film are fighting for open source, if you can 
>> believe that!
>>         In any case, Leonard Maltin, the film critic, gave it three 
>> stars.  I highly recommend it myself and like I said, if you'd like to 
>> have your fantasies fulfilled about Microsoft getting what it deserves, 
>> then this is the film for you!



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