"We are defending the legal right of every company to decide which features go into its own products." Bill Gates explains the altruistic nature of the stance Microsoft is taking in the face of antitrust charges, in the current issue of the Economist.
"Interactivity was a pipe dream, we were told, [in 1993] the media equivalent to a UFO. Today the UFO has landed. The Internet and the [digital video disc] have everyone scrambling to deal with a digital reality whose effects will be profound." Time Warner's chairman and chief executive, Gerald Levin, speaking in Los Angeles last Thursday.
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