Bush became president, the suit was settled on terms generally considered favorable to Microsoft. They didn’t think their company was the monster portrayed by Justice Department lawyers. They felt they were helping their country (as well as themselves) by developing great software. Outside Washington, D.C., they take politics and their consequences seriously - more seriously than in the nation’s capital, where it’s all “just business,” as they say in “The Godfather.” My new colleagues were appalled and hurt by the lawsuit. But I learned a lesson: Nobody thought the hat was very funny. The Clinton Justice Department had recently filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft, threatening huge fines and even a breakup of the company. I wore the cap into the office on my first day, intending this to be a little joke. “DOJ” stood for Department of Justice, which is where my friend worked. My first day of work at Microsoft, 15 years ago, I wore a DOJ baseball cap that a friend had given me when she heard I was going to work in Redmond, Wash.
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