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11-5-95. NYPaper Sunday Magazine: "Making Microsoft Safe For Capitalism. How do you restrain an 800-pound gorilla?" Cover story. By James Gleick. If the software giant has its way, it will soon be in a position to collect a charge for every airline ticket you buy, every credit card purchase you make, every fax you send, every picture you download, every Web site you visit. It's time to draw the line. But where? 'Anything not a direct lie or clearly illegal is O.K. to do if it advances Microsoft's tribal cause,' Mitchell Kapor says. 'This licenses the worst sort of manipulations, lies, tortured self-justification and so on.' 800_ape (Long)