IP: Antitrust

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:12:06 -0700
> To: jwarren () well com
> From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com>
> Subject: Re: Antitrust
>
> From a friend:
>
> >         If you weren't happy with the recent outcome of the Microsoft 
> > case and want to enjoy the pleasure of seeing Gates and his crew carted 
> > off to prison by the Feds, then you don't have wait.  There is a pretty 
> > good film that came out earlier this year where all this happens.  It's 
> > 'Antitrust' <http://us.imdb.com/Title?0218817> and stars Tim Robbins (as 
> > a character so close in looks and manner to Bill Gates that you have to 
> > blink twice) who runs a company so like Microsoft (its in the Pacific 
> > Northwest) that I don't see how they got away with getting this film 
> > into distribution!  It was released by MGM, so this is not a small 
> > independent film.  Heck, there is even a Steve Ballmer clone in the 
> > film, plus other things like a MS campus clone and a Gates home 
> > clone.  The heros of the film are fighting for open source, if you can 
> > believe that!
> >         In any case, Leonard Maltin, the film critic, gave it three 
> > stars.  I highly recommend it myself and like I said, if you'd like to 
> > have your fantasies fulfilled about Microsoft getting what it deserves, 
> > then this is the film for you!



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