“Today’s action is intended to ensure that consumers and computer-makers have the right to choose which software they want installed on their personal computers, and not have that software chosen for them.”
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, giving voice to the tech consumer’s desires as she announced the Government’s suit against Microsoft for anticompetitive practices at a press conference in Washington, D.C., Wired News, 18 May 1998
“That would be tantamount to undermining our franchise by making Windows some bit of software plumbing that no one sees.”
An unnamed Microsoft executive, not seeing the upside in plans by the government to allow PC manufacturers to slap their own front ends over Windows’ start screen, The New York Times, 18 May 1998
“The fact that Microsoft is negotiating with the Justice Department and apparently is prepared to make substantial concessions certainly undermines any argument that Justice has no case.”
Senator Orrin Hatch, (R.-Novell), getting dizzy from trying to spin the latest machinations in the Department of Justice’s antitrust investigation of Microsoft, News.com, 14 May 1998
“ZDTV is about changing the channel. It’s about a world where geek is chic.”
Ziff-Davis Chairman Eric Hippeau, speaking at tech TV channel ZDTV‘s launch party at San Francisco’s Concourse Exhibition Center, 13 May 1998
“Do you just want to talk about me? If all you want to talk about is me, I have better things to do.”
Apple CEO du jour Steve Jobs, responding to a reporter’s attempts to determine whether he was still going to be with the company when the product plans he’s rolling out come to fruition, San Jose Mercury News, 12 May 1998
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