Orrin Hatch: “I suggest people who are interested in this issue not only listen to what I have to say here today but that they read…”

“I suggest people who are interested in this issue not only listen to what I have to say here today but that they read this. I think they will find that this is a group that basically disassembles on many issues. Frankly, I don't think they need to disassemble. All they have to do is come in and tell their case forthright and in a fair and reasonable manner and do it on the merits. If you read this, I think you will realize this is a much more serious set of problems than some in the media make it, especially some of those who seem to think there should never be an enforcement of the antitrust laws. You don't get people from the left to the right, or right to the left--from Bork to you-name-it on the left--saying that there are things that are wrong here, that there is an exploitation of the monopoly power of 90 percent of the operating system and the desktop operating systems throughout the world to crush competition and to do a number of other things that basically are violative of our laws, without their being some heat to some of the arguments that they are making. I have to say, our committee hearings have shown that there are some things that are wrong here. It is a matter of getting people in the software industry to have the guts to come forward and tell their stories. For instance, the OEM, the original equipment manufacturers, are terrified because they depend totally on Microsoft's underlying operating system to run their machines.”