Details of MSFT's Antitrust Lobbying

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday February 13, 2002 @02:05AM from the stuff-to-read dept.

An anonymous sent in linkage to "A new ZDNet article detailing new evidence presented to the judge presiding over the Microsoft anti-trust case. It shows that Microsoft made political contributions during last year's (well, 2000's) elections on a scale never seen before... over $6 million. As comparison, this is four times the amount spent by Enron. It also reveals that Microsoft has been hiring every political lobbyist, and every law firm, with anti-trust expertise and putting them to work on unrelated projects- anything to make them unavailable to work for critics of Microsoft."

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Accountability by joebp · 2002-02-13 02:15 · Score: 2, Redundant

$1.6 million [...] on efforts to influence the U.S. government. [...] Microsoft has been unable to comment.
Wow, don't you love having a corrupt, completely unaccountable and evil entity altering and influencing your government and law makers?
You think the US government would decline contributions from any and all companies who have had their questionable business behaviour legally challenged.
Kinda makes sense, no? A lot like convicts being unable to cast a vote.