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Appraising Microsoft conference



Ralph Nader and companions have created a conference to be held in DC on
Nov 13 and 14 called "Appraising Microsoft and its Global Strategy"
http://www.essential.org/appraising/microsoft/

Those of you interested in communications law especially might be
interested in looking over the articles and the discussion. 

Bill Gates has been invited to speak and to attend, but as you can imagine
has not accepted. But plenty of others who are worth hearing have
accepted.

Conference topics to be discussed include: The Microsoft Antitrust Decree,
A Consumer Framework for the Digital Age, The Federal Government and
Antitrust Enforcement, The Digital Commerce Toll Road and The Theory of
Increasing Returns. 

among the speakers are: 
       Garth Saloner, Stanford University 
       Morgan Chu, Irell & Manella 
       Roberta Katz, General Counsel for Netscape Communications 
       Audrie Krause, NetAction 
       Bill Wendle, The Real Estate Cafe 
       Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems 
       Christine Varney, Former FTC Commissioner 
       Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate 
       Steve Susman, Susman and Godfrey 
       Gary L. Reback, Esq., Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati 
       Financial services: Bill Randle, VP Huntington Bancshares 
       Consumer products: CEO and President Philip Monego, NetChannel 
       Bryan Sparks, CEO Caldera, Inc. 
       James P. Love, Consumer Project on Technology 
       Graham Lea, Principal Analyst of Heterodox (London) 
       Andrew Schulman, Consulting Editor O'Reilly and Association, Author
          of Unauthorized Windows 95 
       Steve Hill, Esq., Snow Christensen 
       Rick Ross, Java Lobby 
       Daniel Nachbar, Public Software Institute 

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