>... the long-term damage done to the tech industry. I know everyone takes this for granted, but there is no empirical evidence Microsoft harmed the tech indus

>... the long-term damage done to the tech industry. I know everyone takes this for granted, but there is no empirical evidence Microsoft harmed the tech industry in the years leading up to the antitrust suit: "Did Microsoft Deter Software Innovation?", Josh Lerner, May 2001 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=269498 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=269498 Fairly easy read, laying out the data, methodologies and controls used, as well as limitations and potential flaws thereof. It uses metrics like VC financing, employment growth, patenting, etc. as proxies to measure innovation, and finds absolutely no evidence that Microsoft harmed the tech sectors it was alleged to in the antitrust suit. Of course, this was before Microsoft let IE languish at v6 for the next 5 years :-)