FC: Gore tells MS employees that election is about who should "have his fingers on the 'alt control delete' button"

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4959-1999Nov15.html

Gore Spars With Microsoft Workers 

By Ceci Connolly and Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday , November 16, 1999 ; A02 

REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 15 ^Ö Vice President Gore faced down a crowded
auditorium of
frustrated Microsoft employees today, saying he believes that antitrust
laws aimed at
breaking up monopolies such as the software manufacturer "embody a fundamental
American value."

Gore said he would not discuss a federal judge's recent ruling that
Microsoft is a predatory
monopolist that stifles competition, but he did adamantly defend the
principles behind the
government's lawsuit against the company.

"If dominance in one area is used to prevent competition in another area,
that is wrong,"
Gore said, referring repeatedly to "unhealthy concentrations of power."

[...]

Throughout the session, Gore attempted to defuse tension by making jokes,
mentioning
obscure scientific theories and repeatedly announcing his Web site address,
algore2000.com. Invoking the term for rebooting a computer, Gore said, the
choice in next
year's election comes down to "who you would really like to have his
fingers on the 'alt
control delete' button."

[...]



--------------------------------------------------------------------------
POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology
To subscribe: send a message to majordomo () vorlon mit edu with this text:
subscribe politech
More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/
--------------------------------------------------------------------------