When the DOJ started the anti-trust case against Microsoft, they had been giving about $10K a year to politicians. By the end of the trial, and the resultant sl

When the DOJ started the anti-trust case against Microsoft, they had been giving about $10K a year to politicians. By the end of the trial, and the resultant slap on the hand, Microsoft was giving $1M to BOTH sides. Nothing since then would lead me to believe that the environment is any different now, or that the outcomes will be any different, this time around. To me, the REALLY depressing thing about our representative republic isn't that it can be bought -- when it was designed to be above such things -- it's that it can be bought so revoltingly cheaply, relatively speaking.