IP: Judge Jackson singles out Gates; MS vows to keep fighting

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

> From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
>
> [Gates' name appears on 67 separate lines of the findings of fact document.]
>
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32377,00.html
>
>                      Judge: 'Gates Was Main Culprit'
>                      by Declan McCullagh
>
>                      3:00 a.m. 6.Nov.1999 PST
>                      Bill Gates was directly involved in
>                      strong-arming companies into kowtowing
>                      to Microsoft's demands, according to US
>                      District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson.
>
>                      Jackson's 207-page condemnation of
>                      Microsoft released late Friday reads like a
>                      litany of precisely the same offenses the
>                      company's enemies have spent years
>                      complaining about -- and spent much of
>                      the trial accusing the world's richest
>                      antitrust defendant of masterminding.
>
>                      [...]
>
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32375,00.html
>
>                      Microsoft Keeps its Dukes Up
>                      by Declan McCullagh
>
>                      6:40 p.m. 5.Nov.1999 PST
>                      Microsoft is vowing to keep up the good
>                      fight.
>
>                      Publicly undaunted from a bitter defeat in
>                      its long-running antitrust case, the
>                      company is putting the best face possible
>                      on the court's preliminary ruling that the
>                      company had an extensive, long-standing
>                      monopoly that thwarted innovation and
>                      hurt consumers.
>
>                      Bill Gates told reporters who gathered in
>                      the Microsoft Studios in Redmond that
>                      "Microsoft is committed to resolving this
>                      case in a fair and responsible manner,
>                      while ensuring that the principles of
>                      consumer benefit and innovation are
>                      protected."
>
>                      A good measure of how terribly the
>                      company lost this initial round can be
>                      found in a Microsoft press release from
>                      late Friday. It said that the court had
>                      "recognized in paragraph 408 of its
>                      findings that consumers have benefited
>                      from Microsoft's actions," and quoted
>                      from the factual findings.
>
>                      What it didn't say is that paragraph 408
>                      was just about the only place in the
>                      207-page opinion where US District Court
>                      Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson found
>                      anything nice to say about Microsoft.
>
>                      [...]
>
>
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