“There are many, many people who aren’t quite sure where the boundaries are between what kinds of products we build and what kind they build, and frankly, we aren’t either.”
Microsoft honcho Steve Ballmer, laying out Microsoft’s strategic vision, News.com, 9 October 1997
“The law of supply and demand has not been repealed. If labor demand continues to outpace sustainable increases in supply, the question is surely when, not whether, labor costs will escalate more rapidly.”
Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan, playing party-pooper to the digerati’s stock rally, Wall Street Journal, 8 October 1997
“You tell Microsoft what they should do. We want this to be tried in the court of public opinion. I can’t just count on the courts. The best way to deliver this message to them is to buy Navigator.”
Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems (not Netscape Communications), exhorting the masses to fight the Microsoft threat to Java, News.com, 7 October 1997
“If the Commerce Department recommends going offshore, then the committee will draft legislation to prevent that.”
Quentin Dickerson, a spokesman for Representative Chip Pickering (R-Mississippi), on his boss’s plans to nationalize the domain name system, Wired News, 6 October 1997
“This is a strange type of monopolistic practice. It doesn’t immediately move to monopoly price. But there is a lot at stake here in terms of control of content and innovation.”
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, encountering Microsoft’s version of late, really late, there-goes-my-bus capitalism for what seems to be the very first time, The New York Times, 6 October 1997
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