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Many groups have done research on this topic. Below are some highlights.
Hoover's PBS television program "Uncommon Knowledge" featured a debate last December between Rich Karlgaard, editor of Forbes ASAP magazine, (on the pro side for Microsoft) and Gary Reback, a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati (con). The program is available as a transcript and in RealAudio format.
Hoover senior fellow and Nobel Laureate Gary S. Becker's Business Week columns on competition and Microsoft were also reprinted in the Hoover Digest:
AEI legal scholar and accused turncoat Robert Bork presents his arguments and reasons for why he believes Microsoft is in violation of antitrust laws in What Antitrust Is All About and The Most Misunderstood Antitrust Case.
Yale Law professor George L. Priest declares that the Microsoft case is A Case Built on Wild Speculation, Dubious Theories.
In As Goes Microsoft, So Goes the Computer Industry, Thomas Hazlett examines how stock returns for Microsoft and the entire computer industry are affected by antitrust actions.
Competitive Enterprise Institute
CEI regulatory fellow Clyde Wayne Crews discusses Network Effects: Does Luck or Talent Rule the High-Technology Market? Crews points out that market dominance tends to more often come from product superiority than from anti-competitive practices.
Crews also has a more general piece entitled Free Microsoft.
Barry Fagin of the Air Force Academy and David Kopel of the Independence Institute explain Why DOJ's Case Against Microsoft is Flawed.
Should Microsoft Be Stopped? was an Issue of the Week last Winter. Bob Kolasky provided the background information.
In June, Jerry Pournelle analyzed Microsoft and the New Antitrust Law.
Progress and Freedom Foundation
At a conference entitled Competition, Convergence and the Microsoft Monopoly, Senator Orrin Hatch gave the opening remarks and discussed antitrust from a conservative perspective.
Several papers were also presented at the conference including:
Ayn Rand Institute / Microsoft Defense Site
The Ayn Rand Institute follows Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy with a consistent pro-business moral perspective. ARI has collected a number of articles by its scholars under its Microsoft Defense Site:
Committee For the Moral Defense of Microsoft
More information from the Objectivist school of thought can be found here, along with a huge Online Petition to the Justice Department.
The Intellectual Activist For still more from the Objectivist perspective, read Richard Salsman's Antitrust "Returns" With A Vengence and Robert Tracinski's The Justice Department's War on Innovation.
Miscellaneous Resources
Microsoft / Government Links
Anti-Microsoft Links
Other Links
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