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Bush Administration Stops Microsoft Breakup
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."
I remember when I was reading slashdot before the elections and the microsoft point was brought, everybody seemed to agree that if bush was elected, he would jump in and stop this... so this isn't a surprise...
The sad part is now you can see how the American Gov is above plain basic justice...
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.
This isn't the company you want. Move along.
Apparently CmdrTaco is still jealous that the inventor of the internet didn't win the last election and is having trouble making distinctions between the Judicial branch of the US government and the Executive branch. Perhaps he never made it out of high school?
I know this'll just get lost in the noise of idiotic posts that this place is famous for, but it struck me as extremely ironic that slashdot, an open source riddled, smouldering pile of turgid code collapsed today when this story was posted. very funny stuff. You realize you people were prevented spouting off about how much more superior and wonderfully stable this open source malarky is because it collapsed yet again? LOL. MS bashing never looked so foolish.
:) so all you suckers working $10/hr desk support trying your hardest to believe this socialist/communist nonesense can keep on struggling, keep trying to make the rent while giving away your work (for those of you fools around here that actually even contribute to an OSS project) while the rest of you trying so desperately to latch on to some of the feeling of 1337ness attached to being a kernel hacker, even though you have yet to grok the frickin pipe, have a nice day. suckers.
I am posting this using win2k. for all your badmouthing and lies, it is a fantastic OS. no crashes, no reboots, no complex conf files to dicker with on setup, my registry is comfortably backed up under (count em) FOUR different system states, making rollback a simple matter in the event of bad 3rd party corruption or even - get this- restoring my system to freshly installed status in under FIVE minutes!!! haha.
You people and your 'make', 'dependencies', 'inodes', 'conf' and a fantastically crash prone windowing system are the most foolish tech advocates possible. If you hate Winders and MS, at least have the sense to use a worthwhile alternative- QNX, MacOS, *BSD etc. This Linux disaster is your own just dessert.
Meanwhile, I can stop working and live comfortably on the dividend MS stock pays quarterly. I was smart, I bought another 3500 shares earlier this year, bringing me up to a total of 35k shares. DotCom money invested soundly, I might add