IP: Making Windows Transparent By PAUL KRUGMAN

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Anyone who has spent time trying to make sense of the Microsoft issue 
realizes that this is one case in which the cliché is true: there are no 
good answers, and all one can do is try to choose the lesser of several 
evils. I like the apparent settlement reached last week better than I liked 
the solution that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson tried to impose last year, 
but I would be the first to admit that this answer has its own problems.

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One last complaint: Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly urged a quick settlement 
in light of "the recent tragic events affecting our nation." That's not a 
good reason for haste in an antitrust proceeding, and a positively bad 
reason to push a settlement that one must admit is rather friendly to the 
monopolist. There are already enough people in the executive and 
legislative branches of our government who think that the way to show 
national unity in these trying times is to give giant corporations whatever 
they want; let's not have the judicial branch joining the act.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/04/opinion/04KRUG.html


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