• What Facebook Can Learn from Microsoft Circa 1998 
Adam Clark Estes, AtlanticWire All this talk about innovation and principles reminds me of another grueling Senate grilling of a tech company. In 1998, Bill Gates sat sweating in the hearing room lights for the first time to answer questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee about whether or not Microsoft wanted to monopolize the computer industry. [....] The chairman of Microsoft competitor, Sun Microsystems, sounded like it came out of an Ayn Rand novel: “We think, left unchecked, Microsoft has a monopoly position that they could use to leverage their way into banking, newspapers, cable, and broadcasting, Internet service providers, applications, data bases browsers. You name it.”   Published: 2011-05-20