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  • From: Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: FC: Judge Jackson completely sides with DoJ
  • Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 00:35:02 -0500 (EST)


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Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 17:57:42 -0800
From: Declan McCullagh <declan AT 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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