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Bush Administration Stops Microsoft Breakup

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-knew-it-was-coming dept.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had been instructed by the Bush Administration to cease its drive to break up Microsoft, which has already been found guilty of violating U.S. anti-trust law in a complaint filed by the Federal Government and 19 states. See the BBC or CNN for more. It isn't clear what wristslap, errr, remedy the Justice Department will seek instead. Update: 09/06 15:21 PM GMT by M : Declan McCullagh of Wired notes: "The text of the DOJ announcement is here. Wired News has an article. Also, the DOJ says a 'Senior Antitrust Division Official' will brief reporters at the department's DC headquarters at 11:30 am ET, so look for some followup stories from that."

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  1. Gee, I'm shocked. by Skyshadow · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    Who can say they're really surpised by this? Perhaps some of you would like to try to justify your Naderism now, eh?

    Let's face it: We're in for 3+ more years of Bush Jr. doing bad things because he can get away with it in our climate of general apathy and disillusionment. Now, I'm all for being disillusioned, but watching this idiot get away with things that should have us on the White House lawn with torches and pitchforks is getting old.

    Let's name a few: -Allowing religion to limit science.
    -Irresponsibly cutting taxes and using it to blatently curry favor with the Nascar sect of American society.
    - Environmental destruction in favor of short-term corporate gains (Alaska, Kyoto).
    - Doing his best to restart the good 'ol cold war (ABM treaty breaking, trying to isolate China).

    Let's face it: This guy's the worst example yet of how bad things are getting, and unless people start to notice they might as well just start allowing only Fortune 500 companies to vote in the general election (hey, you said you wanted to get rid of the electoral college, right?).

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  2. Comments on a few comments, re Slashdot downtime by jamie · · Score: 4, Offtopic
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