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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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