FC: Judge Jackson completely sides with DoJ

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Decision is up in many places, including:
  http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32361,00.html



http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32131,00.html

                     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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