Microsoft not off the hook yet

[JoeHill]

Got this from Salon.com, you need to "get a free day pass" to read the
whole article, but I thought I would post some of it to illustrate
further why I feel the way I do about MS, as some have questioned my
supporting reasoning.

This part is particularly interesting, at least to me:

"The appeals court agreed in June 2001 that Microsoft illegally abused
its monopoly with Windows software. It was expected to decide in coming
months whether the Bush administration and 19 states negotiated adequate
antitrust sanctions in a court-approved settlement.

The attorney general in one state, Tom Reilly of Massachusetts, and two
anti-Microsoft trade organizations want tougher penalties. Reilly has
argued that the settlement was so profoundly flawed that its approval by
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly represented an abuse of her
discretion.

"There's no indication there's going to be a major reworking, but there
is some reason to believe that a rubber stamp is not in order, either,"
said Andrew Gavil, a law professor at Howard University.

Robert Bork, former appeals judge representing Microsoft's rivals, told
the circuit judges the settlement was "utterly inadequate." He
complained that the government settled the case after it had already won
significant courtroom victories, which is highly unusual."

Not so highly unusual when you consider that the Bush Administration
have/had close ties with MS, no?

http://money.cnn.com/2000/04/11/companies/microsoft/

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-03-02-006-06-PS

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