Absolute Corporations Corrupt Absolutely

There’s a bigger worry than Microsoft being above the law (letter, Aug. 26) and setting a precedent for a flood of corporate abuse. (After all, “corporate” and “abuse” go together like love and marriage.) Such cynical deception renders all citizen input suspicious, making it costly to the taxpayers and a misallocation of congressional staff time to verify the validity of such mailings. Only the consumer can hit Microsoft where it really hurts. Don’t patronize the patronizers.

Wayne Tyson

San Diego

The quality of John Balzar’s take on the Microsoft monopoly (Commentary, Aug. 24) can be summed up in one quotation: “Technical arguments abound, I know. But technical matters don’t interest me.” If Balzar is going to offer nothing better than equal measures of unfounded arrogance and prejudiced ignorance, your paper would do readers a service by selling the space to an advertiser.

Bruce J. Weiers

Los Angeles