Details of MSFT's Antitrust Lobbying

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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Flamebait, but it's my genuine opinion.

[Kalabajoui]

At the turn of the century America was a nation populated by a bunch of unsophisticated, childish, ignorant, and easily deceived rubes. The more things change, the more things stay the same.

All the way back in our last election's primaries it was a well known fact that Bush was brought to us by the reactionary, jingoistic right, and sponsored by big-corporate-America. I said to myself, "I'll vote for a monkey in a suit before I vote for this bought & paid for asshole." Did anyone else even stop to consider who's president Bush really intended on being? No, of course not! The mindless sheep who helped put him in office did so out of the un-Christian desire to force their concepts of morality down everbody's throat; and money minded people and business owners voted for him because they thought he'd be "good for business." Now, at a bare minimum, we have to endure another four years of Bush's anti-civil liberties executive orders, political appointments, and policies; and the burden of yet more interest payments on our mind-bogglingly large national debt for no better reason than to line Bush's handlers pockets. Don't even get me started on Congress or the Senate!

I have no optimism that us Americans will wake up and put anything more than the shallowest thought into our collective political decisions. All the while, the pigs will continue their feeding frenzy at the public trough and become ever greedier and bolder in a political climate that increasingly seems to be marked by apathy and a lack of accountability.