"They want to colour the world the colour of goose shit. . .If Microsoft forced upon the world a single browser, it would make things simpler. But that's not what competition is about. That's not what choice is about. We're going to live in a Microsoft world. That may be a nice world, but it's not a competitive world and it's not one that's ultimately consumer driven."
- One of the US government's star witnesses, MIT economist Franklin M. Fisher, holding nothing back in his testimony during the microsoft antitrust trial last week.
"This witness has parroted a lot of the same old facts. All he has done is repeat what previous witnesses have said."
- Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray criticising Fisher for spending much of his testimony simply summarising the government's case.
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