IP: FC: Judge Jackson completely sides with DoJ

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

> Decision is up in many places, including:
>   http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32361,00.html
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> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32131,00.html
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>                      Judge Lowers Boom on MS
>                      by Declan McCullagh
>
>                      5:35 p.m. 5.Nov.1999 PST
>                      The US judge overseeing the Microsoft
>                      antitrust trial didn't only rule that the
>                      company has erected a far-reaching
>                      monopoly. He also took the first step
>                      towards extreme punishments that could
>                      include breaking up the largest software
>                      company in the world.
>
>                      In a detailed, 207-page ruling, US Judge
>                      Thomas Penfield Jackson rejected nearly
>                      every one of Microsoft's explanations and
>                      repeatedly sided with arguments that the
>                      Justice Department and state attorneys
>                      general raised during the trial that began
>                      in October 1998.
>
>                      Jackson painstakingly detailed that there
>                      were no viable competitors to Windows,
>                      dismissing the MacOS, Be/OS, Java,
>                      network computers, and handheld devices
>                      as technologies certain to "remain small in
>                      comparison."
>
>                      He also indicated that he viewed
>                      Microsoft as such an industry bully that
>                      he'd be open to extreme remedies.
>                      "Through its conduct toward Netscape,
>                      IBM, Compaq, Intel, and others, 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," Jackson wrote.
>
>                      [...]
>
>
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