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Article: CUSTOMERS GRANTED MICROSOFT ITS 90 PERCENT MARKET SHARE.(Business)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- September 16, 1998
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James Barksdale, president of Netscape Communications, asked the rhetorical question in March at the Senate Judiciary Committee. How many spectators had computers? Hands went up. How many didn't have Windows? Hands went down.
``Gentlemen, that's a monopoly,'' Barksdale said.
Microsoft opponents packaged this testimony into a film, which was shown in Seattle last month at a conference on antitrust law. It was a tub-thumper, but Payton Smith, a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, spotted its weakness. ``I would have been more moved by that film if I hadn't seen so many competitors in it,'' he said.
Sen. Slade Gorton made the same point: that the ...