Hijacking the World: The Dark Side of Microsoft

by Roberto Di Cosmo and Dominique Nora

Translated from the French by Kirk McElhearn

Table of contents

• Chapter 1: Big brother?
• Chapter 2: Tales of Ordinary Madness
• Chapter 3: The Ivy Tactic
• Chapter 4: Buying Brain Power
• Chapter 5: The Serfs' Revolt
• Glossary
• Notes

Copyright notice

This english translation of the original work "Le Hold Up Planétaire", published in France by Calmann-Lévy in October 1998, was originally distributed commercially by http://00h00.com in 1999.

It will always be available online at the url http://www.dicosmo.org/HoldUp/English.

This work is now made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence known as "Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial" with the following modification to the rights granted in section 3:

• Recipient may not include the present work into a collective work;
• Recipient is only allowed to copy and distribute the present work by electronic means (publish on a web page, send via e-mail, exchange via a peer-to-peer network, etc.), with the express exclusion of mass distribution of printed copies, unless explicitly authorised by the authors. For inquiries about such an authorisation, please contact roberto@dicosmo.org.