-Caveat Lector- NYPOST MICROSOFT JUDGE SAYS GATES IS LIKE A 'GANGLAND KILLER' Monday,January 8,2001 By BILL HOFFMANN The judge who ordered Microsoft split in two last year has compared its top execs to murderous gangsters - and likened the software giant's chief, Bill Gates, to Napoleon. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson tells The New Yorker in this week's issue that Microsoft's declaration of innocence against charges it used cutthroat tactics to become a monopoly was like "the protestations of gangland killers." He says the Microsoft trial reminded him of a trial he presided over four years involving a vicious gang charged with racketeering, drug-dealing and murder. "On the day of sentencing, the gang members maintained that they had done nothing wrong, saying that the whole case was a conspiracy by the white power structure to destroy them," Jackson says. "I am now under no illusions that miscreants will realize that other parts of society view them that way." Gates - who loudly protested that his massive company was always above-board when it came to beating the competition - was the main problem, the judge says. "I think he has a Napoleonic concept of himself and his company - an arrogance that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses." Jackson tells The New Yorker that in some ways, the Microsoft case reminded him of the Watergate era, when Jackson worked as a junior lawyer for President Nixon's re-election committee. "I'm not so much in awe of people and power. I think I'm a lot more cynical about motivation," he says. Jackson also praises the government's chief lawyer in the case, David Boies - who also led the charge for Vice President Al Gore in the Florida election mess - as the best legal mind ever to appear in his courtroom. But of Microsoft's chief lawyer, William Neukom, Jackson says: "I don't think he's very smart, or at least I don't think he has any subtlety. "He's the general counsel of the company. He should have said, 'Look, you may think you're doing the right thing, but there are a lot of other people who don't - and the time has come for us to be flexible.'" ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om