IP: perhaps a better explanation why Bush's DOJ bent over for Microsoft

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
>
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>Forward:  [Random-bits] MS campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures
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>>http://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v6/alertv6_26.asp
>>Microsoft Antitrust Case:
>>An Update on the Company's
>>Lobbying and Campaign Contributions

Microsoft Antitrust Case:
An Update on the Company's
Lobbying and Campaign Contributions

After more than three years of investigations, litigation and intensive 
lobbying, the Justice Department today announced it would no longer seek a 
break-up of the computer giant Microsoft, ending one aspect of a landmark 
case that sent the company's campaign contributions soaring and formally 
introduced the computer industry to Washington politics.

The decision by the Bush administration to vacate the lawsuit that was 
first initiated in 1998 by the Clinton Justice Department is considered a 
major victory for Microsoft, which nearly tripled its campaign 
contributions and more than doubled its lobbying expenditures during its 
fight against the antitrust case.

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>>--
>>James Love
>>Consumer Project on Technology
>>P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
>>http://www.cptech.org, mailto:love@cptech.org
>>voice: 1.202.387.8030 fax 1.202.234.5176 mobile 1.202.361.3040



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