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July 6, 2005
Let the whining continue
The folks at Slashdot are all worked up that the head of Go, a company that was doing work on pen computing in the late 1980s and early 1990s, is suing Microsoft over crushing his business.
It's really getting pathetic, folks. Whether you believe Microsoft to be a monopoly or not (it's not -- they're an exceptionally powerful company, but hardly a monopoly), it certainly wasn't a monopoly in the late 1980s. Like most successful technology companies, MS plays hard -- sometimes too hard -- but all these companies (like Be, who's technology was so terrific that Palm bought it and never used it) coming out of the walls to collect some free settlement money really need to suck it up.
Posted by Lee Clontz at July 6, 2005 3:09 PM