Dan Gillmor (note the spelling) writes:

[link|http://web.siliconvalley.com/content/sv/2001/08/14/opinion/dgillmor/weblog/index.htm|Breaking Windows, a Must Read]

I consider David Banks's book about Microsoft, Breaking Windows, one of the must-read volumes if you care about technology. It's based on excellent reporting and is written with great expertise.

David's conclusion, that Microsoft is planning to work in a fair and open manner in the Internet Era, strikes me as misguided, however. I suspect he finished the book just when the company was pretending it would change its behavior, a pretense that subsequent events have shown to be false.

The excerpt seems to be well written. But in all of MS's history it has shown that it doesn't care about anything, even the law, other than itself. The author somehow concluding that MS has changed its stripes makes me feel that I won't be putting it on my "to read" list anytime soon.

Cheers,
Scott.