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Ben Gilbert: belief

22 Jul 2024 Acquired Microsoft Volume II

“There’s a meaningful moment in history, I think about 15–16 months, where the official ruling is Microsoft should be going through the preparations to do their breakup.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
22 Jul 2024
Publisher
Acquired

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…Wow. That’s wild. What a freaking crazy escapade here. There’s no other way to put it. This is June of 2000, by the way. The appeal then takes a long time. There’s a meaningful moment in history, I think about 15–16 months, where the official ruling is Microsoft should be going through the preparations to do their breakup. That is what the world believes as far as anyone knows. The appeals court removes Judge Jackson from the case. They install a new judge to re-adjudicate the matter. She gets up to speed. We’re now in the year 2001. She starts pushing the parties toward a settlement,…

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