On Microsoft's Increased Sponsorship of FIRST // Was: Microsoft Regional

Joe Matt · #18 09-09-2007, 19:47

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Originally Posted by dtengineering

Perhaps some standardization might not be a bad thing, and if it is done by a company that has created tens of thousands of good jobs in the Pacific Northwest and around the world that is guided by a person who will eventually be recalled as the most generous philanthropist in history... well... it could be worse, couldn't it?

Except for the little fact, you know, they broke the law. Ooops.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft

But hey, what's such a little thing such as an illegal monopoly in the face of history?

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