IP: In Findings of Fact, Judge Says Microsoft Has a Monopoly

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/articles/05microsoft.html

[allow me a virtual high 5 djf]

November 5, 1999
In Findings of Fact, Judge Says Microsoft Has a Monopoly
By THE NEW YORK TIMES ON THE WEB


eleasing his opinion of the facts in the wide-ranging government antitrust 
case against software giant Microsoft, a federal judge on Friday evening 
said the company's dominance of the operating system market constitutes a 
monopoly.


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"Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power 
and immense profits to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives 
that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's core products," 
U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson wrote in his findings.
The opinion did not specifically identify which antitrust laws Microsoft 
might have violated, if any, or say anything about penalties. But the 
findings were still a sharp setback for Microsoft, as Judge Jackson sided 
with virtually every facet of the government's case.

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David Farber
The Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems
University of Pennsylvania
Home Page: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber
Email: farber () cis upenn edu

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