Microsoft has surely learned another important (but unfortunate) lesson: Politicking
counts in antitrust matters. The corollary lesson is that any very large and visible firm like
Microsoft must pay the political pipers, before it has to react to claims of its competitors.
Circa 1995, Microsoft was a political neophyte. The company’s political contributions
totaled a meager 16,000,ドル millions less than its rivals (IBM, AOL, Netscape, Oracle and
Sun Microsystems) were spending on lobbying.
The company had only one lobbyist in Washington, and his office was out near
Maryland, not on the K Street corridor where all big-time lobbyists ply their trade. When
that one lobbyist called Gates to ask to move downtown so that he could be more
effective, Gates is reported to have snapped, “Haven’t you heard of e-mail?”
MS evitait de toucher a la politique, et laissait le lobbyisme a ses concurrents, ils ne feront pas la meme erreur 2 fois.
Ce qu'il faut faire c'est interdire le lobbyisme, mais tant que c'est permis, MS n'a pas le choix, il ne peut pas laisser le champs libre a IBM et autres.
[^] # Re: On peut même dire ...
Posté par pasBill pasGates . En réponse au journal Microsoft a ses affidés dans l'administration Bush. Évalué à 1.
http://www.gsm.uci.edu/~mckenzie/unsettling.pdf
Microsoft has surely learned another important (but unfortunate) lesson: Politicking
counts in antitrust matters. The corollary lesson is that any very large and visible firm like
Microsoft must pay the political pipers, before it has to react to claims of its competitors.
Circa 1995, Microsoft was a political neophyte. The company’s political contributions
totaled a meager 16,000,ドル millions less than its rivals (IBM, AOL, Netscape, Oracle and
Sun Microsystems) were spending on lobbying.
The company had only one lobbyist in Washington, and his office was out near
Maryland, not on the K Street corridor where all big-time lobbyists ply their trade. When
that one lobbyist called Gates to ask to move downtown so that he could be more
effective, Gates is reported to have snapped, “Haven’t you heard of e-mail?”
MS evitait de toucher a la politique, et laissait le lobbyisme a ses concurrents, ils ne feront pas la meme erreur 2 fois.
Ce qu'il faut faire c'est interdire le lobbyisme, mais tant que c'est permis, MS n'a pas le choix, il ne peut pas laisser le champs libre a IBM et autres.