Bill Gates & co. pissed someone off so they decided to teach him a lessons. Classic politics story.

winteryeti

I wonder how much other organized crime bosses think they're doing good for their neighborhoods.

This framing makes sense. I wonder how clear it is in the mind of a politician, though. Are they thinking like this or is the "protection money" nature of rule-making or governing sort of an emergent phenomenon that is a consequence of how public entities work?

Scoresby

LAXITIVA

Murray Rothbard saw government as a predatory, criminal entity and the Microsoft lawsuit of 1998 proved to be a classic example of government organized crime in action.

Politics_And_Law

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By William L. Anderson
> Murray Rothbard saw government as a predatory, criminal entity and the Microsoft lawsuit of 1998 proved to be a classic example of government organized crime in action.