Workshop on Microsoft Remedies

Workshop on Microsoft Remedies             
        

What: Appraising Microsoft II, a workshop on "Which Remedies?"

When: Friday, April 30, 1999 -- 8:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.         

Where: Essential Information

        1530 P Street NW, Washington, DC
        16th and P Streets, near the DuPont Circle Metro stop

On the web: http://www.appraising-microsoft.org/2nd.html

You are invited to join experts in antitrust law and economics, computer scientists, consumer advocates, software business executives, Microsoft defenders, and others who will gather on April 30 to discuss the various mechanisms that are under consideration to curb Microsoft's anticompetitive practices.

As the first phase of the government's Microsoft antitrust trial reaches its conclusion, the question for many computer users is not whether Microsoft has violated antitrust laws, but rather: what should be done about it, and how resolution of the antitrust case change the computer industry for the future?

The April 30 workshop is the first public event to focus specifically on the issue of remedies for the Microsoft antitrust case.  

All interested parties are welcome. Luncheon will be provided for those who register in advance, either by calling our office or through the web site. If you are not able to come for the day, you are welcome to drop by for segments which interest you. The format will be seminar, with time for questions and comments from attendees. There will be opportunity to meet with the presenters.

Featured speakers, moderators and panel members wil be:

     Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate

     Jean-Louis Gassee, CEO of Be, Inc.

     Bryan Sparks, CEO of Caldera, Inc.

     Bob Young (invited), CEO of Red Hat Software.

     Ted Johnson, Co-Founder and Executive VP, Visio.

     Gary Reback, Wilson, Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

     Roberto Di Cosmo, Maitre de conferences in computer science at
     Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, author of with Dominique Nora, 
     Le Hold-Up planetaire 

     David Bollier, Author of The Power of Openness, a proposal for the
     H2O Project on Open Code software., prepared for the Berkman
     Center, Harvard Law School. 

     F.M. Scherer, Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management
     in the Aetna Chair Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
     University. 

     Joseph J. Simons, Partner in the Rogers & Wells' Antitrust Group 

     Steven Salop, Professor of Economics and Law, Georgetown University
     Law Center. 

     Jonathan Zuck, President, Association for Competitive Technology 

     Marc Cooper, Research Director, Consumer Federation of America 

     James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology 

     Glenn Manishin, Partner, Blumenfeld and Cohen - Technology Law
     Group, principal author of the SIIA remedies document 

     Ed Black, President, Computer and Communications Industry
     Association 

     Henry First, currently Professor of Law, New York University,
     recently appointed as Chief of the Antitrust Bureau for the New
     York Department of Law. 

     Mitch Stone, editor/publisher Boycott Microsoft, technology 
     columnist for Scripps Howard

REGISTRATION It would be helpful but not mandatory to register before the event. The registration form is on the conference web site. This event is being organized by Essential Information, without any outside funding, so it is necessary to ask for registration fees to cover expenses. The fees are:

  Business Registration $250
  Nonprofit/government $ 45

Scholarships available for persons without sponsors or with limited ability to pay. No one who wants to come should be deterred by the fee. To make such arrangements, please contact:

  Donna Colvin <dcolvin[_at_]essential.org>
  202.387.8030

-- 
James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
I can be reached at love[_at_]cptech.org, by telephone 202.387.8030,
by fax at 202.234.5176. CPT web page is http://www.cptech.org/