Notes

Chapter 1

1.- Intel vs. Intergraph: Intergraph CEO details Intel charges, June 11, 1998. See http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,23092,00.html?st.ne.ni.rel.

2.- The Wall Street Journal, January 16, 1998, page B1 and http://www.intel.com/intel/showcase/index.htm?iid={intelhome=showcase}.

3.- O. Casey Corr, "Cybersnoops on the Loose; Web-site Surfers Beware: Software "Cookies" Gathering Personal Data", The Seattle Times, October 8, 1997. See also: "How About a Cookie?" http://www.aci.acer.com.tw/acercare/techtalk/4/cookie.html, and Web cookies http://www.microtimes.com/175/webcookies.html, which gives a more utopic vision.

4.- http://www.msn.com.

5.- See Richard Kain, "Microsoft'97 Is Just Another Standard Oil'07", Los Angeles Times, August 8, 1997, Metro section, p. 9.

6.- See a large excerpt from this decision at http://www.essential.org/antitrust/ibm/ibm1984ec.html.

7.- See Jules Abels, Rockefeller Billions, 1965.

Chapter 2

8.- http://www.dmi.ens.fr/~dicosmo.

9.- See Richard M. Stallman, "The Right To Read", in Communications of the ACM, vol. 40, no 2, February 1997. Also at http://www.gnu.org/people/rms.html.

10.- Press F5, then type X97: L97, then Enter, then Tab, and click on the chart wizard, while holding down the Ctrl and Shift keys.

11.- FAA Overhauls AAS, Halts MLS, Airport Report Expresss, 6 juin 1994, http://www.airportnet.org/DEPTS/publicat/express/1994htm/6-6-94.htm.

12.- See ActiveX-Conceptional Failure of Security, http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/security/activex.en.html.

13.- The full list of messages from anonymous users is available at http://www.vcnet.com/bms/wingripe.shtm.

14.- See http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,24643,00.html?st.ne.fd.gif.d.

15.- See http://www.gcn.com/gcn/1998/July 13/cov2.htm.

16.- See http://www.ghg.net/madmacs/Takeover.html.

Chapter 3

17.- See http://europa.eu.int/abc/doc/off/bull/fr/9407/p204001.htm.

18.- Required to buy windows, http://www.essential.org/antitrust/ms/jun3survey.html.

19.- "Microsoft inspected in Japan", by Paul Festa, January 13, 1998, http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,18042,00.html?ndh.idirect.

20.- See http://www.theregister.co.uk/981123-000003.html. Also at http://bsd.mojones.com/mother_jones/JF98/burstein.html.

21.- See the SPA letter on Competition sent to Joel Klein, Assistant Attorney General. http://www.spa.org/gvmnt/tos/completter.htm.

22.- See, for example, "Windows 98 Disables Competitors' Software" by Brain Livingston, July 14, 1998, on CNN Interactive http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9807/14/livingston.idg/index.html?st.ne.fd.mnaw.

23.- "Caldera says M'soft may pull licenses", by Will Rodger, Inter@ctive Week, April 27, 1998, http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/980427h.html.

24.- See Salt Lake Tribune, http://www.sltrib.com/1998/jul/07291998/utah/45304.htm.

25.- See The Economist, June 13, 1998, p. 24.

26.- See "Minimal NT Server/Workstation Differences", http://software.ora.com/News/ms_internet_andrews.html.

27.- (http://www.zone.com//asp/content/zonehelp/zsystem.asp) If, after the publication of this book, this text has been changed, check to see if the new version is truly impartial...

28.- http://www.tesco.co.uk/superstore.

29.- The (nearly) Whole Microsoft Catalog, http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/catalog.html.

30.- Investments + Acquisitions, http://www.microsoft.com/msft/invest.htm.

31.- Schulmann Andrew, LA Law. The Stac case judged February 23, 1994, in Los Angeles, http://www.dap.csiro.au/Interest/LALaw.html.

32.- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,24468,00.html?sas.mail.

33.- http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/catalog.html.

34.- See http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,24527,00.html?st.ne.fd.gifet.

35.- The Java Office, May 27, 1997, http://www.zdnet.com/products/content/pcmg/1610/pcmg0005.html.

36.- See: "Borland and the Microsoft Suit", http://www.inprise.com/about/mssuit.html.

37.- Jennifer Edstrom and Marlin Eller, Barbarians Led By Bill Gates, Henry Holt & Co, 1998.

38.- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28937,00.html

Chapter 4

39.- "Microsoft Licensing Plan Denounced By Tokyo", KeyServer User Group December 18, 1997, http://www.quality.co.jp/ksug. See also "Microsoft profits from license changes" http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,26061,00.html.

40.- http://www.netaction.org.

41.- http://mithrin.isu.edu/psb/main.html.

42.- "Microsoft Campus Brain Trust: $10,000 a Year for providing `Input'", in The Chronicle for Higher Education, April 24, 1998. See also: "Microsoft Pays $200 for Mentioning Its Tools", The Chronicle for Higher Education, April 24 1998

43.- See http://www.sjmercury.com/columnists/gillmor/docs/dg073198.htm.

44.- Some sites, such as http://www.fortunecity.com/underworld/dukenukem/204/, have games where you can "cream" Bill Gates as much as you want!

45.- Before deciding whether Gates has made a philanthropic gesture as important as that of Andrew Carnegie who gave up his company to consecrate himself entirely to the Carnegie Library Foundation, you should wait and see if this is real money, or "virtual money" as with Compétence 2000.

Chapter 5

46.- See http://www.newdealinc.com.

47.- See http://www.fsf.org and http://www.gnu.org.

48.- See http://www.linux.org.

49.- An impressive list of applications as available at http://www.m-tech.ab.ca/linux-biz.

50.- See his article, "The Cathedral and the bazar", at: http://www.redhat.com/redhat/cathedral-bazar.

51.- See http://www.aful.org.

52.- Gartner Group http://www.gartner.com/public/static/datapro/industry/indnews6.html. Standish Group: "NT and UNIX: Irresistible Force vs. Immovable Object", January 1998, http://www.standishgroup.com/syst.html. Aberdeen Group: http://www.aberdeen.com.

53.- See "The Hidden Cost of NT", Martin J. Garvey, Information Week, http://www.informationweek.com/692/92iuhid.htm.

54.- See "Solaris calls Hotmail shots for Microsoft", at http://www.kirch.net/unix-nt/hotmail.html. and http://www.linux-center.org/articles/9807/NT.html.

55.- However, the total cost, which takes into account the lifespan of the computer, maintenance costs, etc. , is lower for Macs than for WinTel PCs.

56.- See http://www.vcnet.com/bms/wingripe.shtml.

57.- See http://www.smets.com, and Bernard Lang, "Des logiciels libres a` la disposition de tous", Le Monde diplomatique, janvier 1998. Also available at http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/1998/01/LANG/9761.html. See also Bernard Lang and Jean-Claude Guédon, "Linux, mini-os contre maxi exploitation". Libération, 7 novembre 1997. Also available at http://www.pauillac.tbiniria.fr/~lang/ecrits/libe/www.liberation.com/multi/tribune/art/tri971107.html.

58.- See http://mercury.chem.pitt.edu/~angel/LinuxFocus/English/November1997/article9.html, and Freeware usage at http://pauillac.inria.fr/~lang/hotlist/free/use.

59.- See "Linux Helps Bring Titanic to Life", http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue46/2494.html.

60.- See http://www.linux-center.org, and http://www.europe-inside.com/solutions.

61.- See http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/GNUstep/.

62.- See http://www.microsoft.com/europe/roadahead/350.htm.