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Big Companies Back Microsoft in Antitrust Case

Visa and Weyerhaeuser are sick and tired of these pesky states that want the government to keep monitoring Microsoft for antitrust violations.

Everybody now, in your best English accent from Pink Floyd's "The Wall": "We don't need your supervision...We don't need government control...No extension of the antitrust deal...Hey, government, leave Microsoft alone!"

Posted by Lee Pender on November 29, 2007


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