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CNET News.com: Harvard professor mutes antitrust skepticism

“Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig today
downplayed a news story that indicated he had doubts Microsoft
should be broken up.”

” ‘What I said was: One, I have done my time in this case and am
looking forward to being released for good behavior; two, I have
not studied the issues enough to say anything serious; but, three,
my bias is to be skeptical about a breakup,’ Lessig wrote.”

” ‘I would have thought one and two would have entailed that
three was not newsworthy. I still believe that, and don’t want to
tempt non-newsworthiness anymore,’ he continued.”

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