Robin Miller's eyewitness account of the Linux monopoly trial

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[For the parallels to be closer, you'd have to have a biased and 
not-too-bright judge who decided from day one to side with the Justice 
Department, which in turn was bringing a case on behalf of politically 
well-connected firms that had been failing to compete in the marketplace 
but that chose not to spend shareholders' money on their own private 
antitrust suits against the alleged monopolist. Still, it's a good read. :) 
--Declan]

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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 18:48:02 -0500
From: "Robin 'Roblimo' Miller" <robin () roblimo com>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Subject: Eyewitness account of the Linux monopoly trial

Washington DC, January 31, 2014 -- Riot police have finally managed to beat 
back the milling throng of displaced Visual Basic programmers who attacked 
the courthouse after Judge Cotter Kathelly announced that Linux was not an 
illegal monopoly and that neither Linus Torvalds nor his company, Linux 
Development, Inc, owed damages to former employees and shareholders of 
now-bankrupt Microsoft or to any of its business partners.

- by Robin 'Roblimo' Mille
(Reporters Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair contributed to this article)

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/01/30/0111257&mode=nested&tid=149


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