Continuing Twists In Microsoft, Intel Cases

An Anonymous Coward writes: "New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer and California Attorney General Bill Lockyer have threatened to pursue their own sanctions against Microsoft if they conclude that the Justice department isn't being tough enough. Amongst other things, they demand that Windows XP "receive close scrutiny in arriving at a judicially ordered remedy. Go NY!"" NaughtyusMaximus points us to this message at Anandtech about Via reacting to Intel's patent-infringement suit by turning around and suing Intel -- for patent infringement -- in Taiwan and the U.S.. Via is also countersuing Intel in England.

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In other News...

[Robber Baron]

California and New York appear to be responding to a surprising turnabout by the Justice Department, which last week said it would not seek a breakup of Microsoft or retry the claim that the software giant illegally tied together Internet Explorer and Windows 95 and 98...

In other news, federal and state prosecutors have decided to suepend antitrust proceedings against auto manufacturer Ford, Ford has been accused of violating antitrust laws by bundling engines, seats, and wheels with their automobiles. The DOJ originally sought to force the auto manufacturer to sell a stripped-down model minus these key items to allow competitors the opportunity to sell their products to Ford consumers...

Re:In other News...

[Waffle Iron]

Why does someone always come out with the inappropriate car analogies?

Cars are obviously different from software. Why, if Ford were to make a vehicle that was as prone to crashing as Windows, then people would be lining up in droves to sue their asses and their executives would be hauled before congressional committ...

umm, wait a minute...

Re:DOJ attack on MS helped cause the dot-com crash

[gnovos]

Wow, you are so right! I always knew it wasn't because of tens of millions of dollars a month burn rates, business plans seemingly written by optimistic monkies (and not the bright ones), IPOs lauched literally months after the initital funding rounds, with profitability not projected for a decade... No, I'm sure you are absolutly correct about it being the DoJ's fault...

:)

I'd pay to see that...

[Greyfox]

RMS: That was my identical twin, Bill!
DOJ: But... I saw a monopoly!
RMS: Oh dear... Bad evil naughty naughty Bill!
DOJ: What?
RMS: He started a monopoly. And we all know there can be only ONE punishment for starting a monopoly! We must have... a SPANKING!
MS Engineers: A spanking! A spanking!
RMS: Yes! You must spank him well and good and after you are done... spank me!
MS Engineers: And us!
RMS: Yes! You must give us all a good spanking! And after the spanking, the oral sex!
DOJ: Well, I guess I could prosecute a BIT longer...