BUSINESS IN THE DIGITAL AGE

ANTITRUST

Who Blinked, Intel or the US: The Best Guess Is Uncle Sam Made A Hasty Retreat From Its Antitrust Case
(From THE BridgeNews FORUM, March 9, 1999)
WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission staff and Intel, the California-based computer chipmaker, reached a preliminary settlement of their antitrust case just 24 hours before trial.

Washington vs Microsoft: Don't Repeat the IBM Debacle
(From the Wall Street Journal, March 3, 1998)
A refresher course in one of the great train wrecks of American legal history, U.S. v. IBM

Those Who Cannot Remember The Past....
(From Intellectual Capital, April 16, 1998)
An un-fond memoir of antitrust enforcement in days of yore, and a plea not to repeat this history in the context of computer software.

Perspective on Microsoft: The goose with the golden egg is being led to slaughter
(From the Los Angeles Times, May 20, 1998)
The theme: Gates is worth decabillions because of his willingness to embrace the fluidity of the future. "This is the opposite of the bureaucratic mind, which cannot stand uncertainty and fluidity and so makes the future predictable by stifling it."

Purpose of the Antitrust Laws
Excerpt from, "The Role, If Any, of Economic Analysis in Antitrust Litigation"
(Southwestern University Law Review, 1981)
A look at a question that has bedevilled antitrust for a century.

MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

See the articles listed under, Intellectual Property

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Computer Games
(From Reason, November 1997)
The government is subsidizing Internet access by schools and libraries. A critical look at the e-rate.

Grading The E-Rate
(From Intellectual Capital, August 20, 1998)
Why the e-rate flunks as a matter of education policy.

The Schools and Library Fund: Five Months Old and Fodder for Scandal
(From the Federalist Society's Telecommunications & Electronic Media News, Fall 1998)
More on the e-rate, and on the incentives it creates for school and library officials to follow the owlhoot trail.

Telecommunications and the E-Rate
(The Washington Post, June 30, 1998)
This program has the potential to turn into a massive subsidy for the hardware necessary to provide these redundant connections and a misdirected educational investment. With friends like these, our schools need no enemies.