Bill Gates
First published 12/10/1998

Poor Bill Gates. Well, not poor Bill Gates. Rich Bill Gates. But sad Bill Gates, because the government is prosecuting him for monopolistic business practices.

Microsoft may be a monopoly, but the real comparison isn't to Monopoly but to Risk. Bill Gates is the guy who takes over Europe at the beginning of the game, and is on his way to taking Asia, and he's got one or two countries on everyone else's continent, so everybody hates him. The Africa guy and the Australia guy and the North America guy.... everybody's ganging up on him.

If the governments wins this case, it wants to break up Microsoft into smaller companies. I don't know exactly how it plans to do this, but I've got a couple of ideas..

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