Antitrust Bulletin articles from September 1999

Antitrust Bulletin archives from September 1999

Perspectives on United States v. Microsoft Corp.
September 22, 1999... I was delighted when Bill Curran, the editor-in-chief of The Antitrust Bulletin, asked me to guest-edit an issue devoted to the Microsoft case. What follows are four articles, each of which discusses a different aspect of the litigation and...

Microsoft and Standard Oil: radical lessons for antitrust reform.(United States v. Microsoft)
September 22, 1999... Ignorance and uncertain inference are the norm in antitrust. Frank H. Easterbrook(1) I. Introduction Central to the current antitrust case against Microsoft is the Department of Justice's allegation that Bill Gates's firm...

Remedying the Microsoft monopoly: monopoly law, the rights of buyers, and the enclosure movement in intellectual property.(United States v. Microsoft)
September 22, 1999... The Microsoft litigation in all its technological complexity illustrates the central tensions between the competitive market philosophy of the antimonopoly provision of the Sherman Act and the late 20th-century enthusiasm for the protection of...

A Microsoft dialog.(United States v. Microsoft)(Panel Discussion)
September 22, 1999... DAVID McGOWAN [DM]: I have some sympathy with the Antitrust Division's concern for innovation in markets that relate to personal computers, as well as some questions about the Division's case, so perhaps I can begin by raising what would seem...

An offer Netscape couldn't refuse? The antitrust implications of Microsoft's proposal.(United States v. Microsoft)
September 22, 1999... I. Introduction The government(1) alleges that Microsoft tried to destroy Netscape in order to protect its monopoly of personal computer operating systems. Most applications programs are written to run only on a particular operating...

Critique and follow-up: an electronic discussion.(United States v. Microsoft)(Panel Discussion)
September 22, 1999... Thomas Cotter--March 31, 1999 I thought I may as well kick things off, having just finished reading Lopatka & Page's illuminating article on attempts to monopolize, in which the authors argue that attempts to monopolize should be...

PC software.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... I. Introduction In the beginning, there was hardware. But it was not good for hardware to live alone because, by itself, a computer's hardware cannot do much that is useful. It needs to be told what to do. As Kohanski put it, ...