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Part One: The Ballad of Bill Gates

Behind the Bastards

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Netscape and the Internet Tidal Wave

Gates's lawyers in p r flax wanted him to make hay out of his reputation as a boy genius who dropped out of harvard to become the world's richest man. The government case against microsoft was heavily boosted by a memorandum written in 19 95, gates himself titled the internet tidal wave. It described net scape as a threat that had to be beaten. 20 state governments joined the lawsuit, which alleged that the company was engaged in a systemic pattern of anti competitive tactics. A federal judge decided for the government, finding that microsoft had attempted to monopolize the web browser market,. he ordered the company split in two. They appeal and get what they eventually got was just like

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