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Microsoft operating system chief Jim Allchin is the Joe McCarthy of the software industry: Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer ...

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While the experiment itself involved esoteric tasks, Jim Allchin had to do something every computer user dreads: installing programs and running the Internet on a new PC. The 47-year-old Allchin, known at Microsoft as "" the Windows guy, '' first allowed himself time to "" start learning '' the newly purchased IBM laptops, and then had to keep working "" until I understood how I could get a connection established pretty quickly. ''

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After getting Allchin to vouch for the video, Boies showed that the Microsoft demo was not reliable evidence, but an edited document.

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At one point, Allchin wanted to install a Microsoft program that would not work until he keyed in the 11-digit number on the license agreement, written too small for him to see without his glasses (his assistant read the numbers to him).

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Jim Allchin said something to me rather ominous when I had dinner with him and some other terrific folks back in January.

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'' By the end of the demo, even though he felt he had proved his point, Allchin looked thoroughly beaten down -- just like millions of other users who'd similarly lost their minds at about the midnight hour.

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But the judge allowed Allchin to re-create the experiment at their lawyers 'office on Wednesday night.

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Steve Gillmor: The Allchin Tax Cut. tvRSS just got a major upgrade.

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Allchin makes three suggestions, the first of which, is that we begin teaching Mendelian genetics that is segregation of alleles, etc using cases where there is no dominance.

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Now it comes out that back in 2003 Allchin told his colleagues he wanted to call me and beg me to make the iPod work with Windows.

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