[js1138]

Bill Gates is no Republican, but Microsoft gave no political contributions and had no Washington lobbiests until the government of Bill Clinton sued them.

[KwasiOwusu]

Gates contributed $2000 to the Bush-Cheney campaign.
The Google boys on the other hand gave massively to Hanoi John Kerry and the DNC.
Plus Gogle topped themselves by coming up with President Bush's name whenever anyone typed in the words "Pathetic failure" in Google search.
It must be noted that neither Yahoo nor msn search came up with such a result.
Did Gates back Bush because of the "good" outcome of the antitrust case?
Maybe.
Bottom line, Gates backed Bush, and the Google guys were Kerry supporters.

[Seattle Conservative]

You're right on both statements. Some think that one of the reasons that Microsoft got sued was because it didn't have any lobbyists (or only a couple, if any) and the other tech firms had quite a few.