A rather interesting column from Joseph Nocera: Google This: Is Microsoft Still a Bully? He begins:
Not long ago, I went to Washington for a dinner given by a friend. She wanted to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the end of the Microsoft antitrust trial, which she had covered for a news agency and I had covered for Fortune magazine.
In all, about 10 of us made it to the dinner, and it wasn’t long before we were regaling one another about the “good old days” of the trial – laughing at the way Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson used to roll his eyes at Microsoft’s witnesses, and recalling how the superlawyer David Boies, whose daily skewering of Microsoft gave the trial most of its entertainment value, would put straws in his jacket pocket when he went out drinking with us so he could keep track of how many drinks he had.