IP: Orrin Hatch on tech, competition, Microsoft.

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 18:44:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Dan Gillmor <dgillmor () sjmercury com>
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Abstract:




Gillmor: Hatch doesn't buy Microsoft's world view
</SNML_HEADLINES<SNML_BYLINEBY DAN GILLMOR
<SNML_CREDIT_LINEMercury News Technology Columnist</SNML_CREDIT_LINE 
</SNML_BYLINEORRIN Hatch is not what you'd call a big-government,
regulation-happy kind of politician. That's why the powerful senior U.S.
senator from Utah, as conservative a Republican as they come, seems an
unlikely
cheerleader for the Justice Department's hardening stance toward Microsoft
Corp. 
After all, if you believe Microsoft and its allies, the current case
against the
company is nothing less than the government deciding how or whether a company
can innovate and do business. 
Hatch may be conservative, but he rejects pure economic libertarianism. And he
most definitely doesn't buy Microsoft's world view, or its business tactics.