Microsoft: $1 Million a Day for Contempt of Court Orders (Justice Department)
"The government is not trying to destroy Microsoft, it’s simply seeking to compel Microsoft to obey the law. It’s quite revealing that Mr. [Bill] Gates equates the two."
-Government official
THERE is this artificially-popularised (paid-for) modern-era myth that Microsoft only ever followed the law or enforced the law. Nothing could be further from the truth. Microsoft is run by saboteurs, bullshit artists, and outright criminals who commit the crime and then hide behind the PR department (e.g. bribing officials, later calling these bribes "marketing help").
Even people inside Microsoft's PR department (Waggener Edstrom) are very well of Microsoft's crimes but their job is to cover up those crimes and even remove mentions of these crimes from Wikipedia (while Bill Gates and Microsoft both bribe Wikipedia [1, 2]).
Microsoft and the law are basically complete opposites. Microsoft behaves as if it's 100% exempt from laws.
Barbarians Led by Bill Gates, a book composed by the daughter of Microsoft's PR mogul (Madame Edstrom), said this: "The Justice Department also renewed its request that the court fine Microsoft $1 million a day for contempt and, in an unusual move, asked the judge to give the government new authority to review any new operating systems or browsers made by Microsoft at least thirty days before release."
Don't ever forget what Microsoft truly is. █
“I think he [Bill Gates] has a Napoleonic concept of himself and his company, an arrogance that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses [...] They don’t act like grown-ups!”
-Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson