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Internal Microsoft e-mail refers to "Our big plan to stifle
competition and use our monopoly powers to crush other companies."
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Those were code words. "stifle competition" is code for "innovate freely," "monopoly powers" means "team of talented employees," and "crush other companies" translates to "give free candy to poor children."
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OEM agreement with Compaq requires Compaq employees to
"serve as a free-standing army under Microsoft command
in times of social turmoil."
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Standard industry contract language. Microsoft itself was
once required to defend IBM from peasant uprising.
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Microsoft was, at one time, planning to pay users not to use
Netscape's browser, under their "Don't Use Netscape and We'll Give
You a Buck" promotion.
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Plan was eventually scrapped -- funds need to pay people who forwarded
Microsoft e-mail to all their friends.
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When told by the judge "I don't want to hear another peep out of you,"
Gates released a press statement consisting only of the words "Peep peep."
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No comment.
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