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Supreme Court Rejects Microsoft Appeal

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shot-down dept.

Geoff writes "I assume you've gotten a few zillion of these already, but since I don't see it on the front page yet, the Supreme Court has rejected Microsoft's appeal of the antitrust verdict." It should be noted that this was expected.

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  1. Re:Not like it matters... by NecroPuppy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Remember, just because the DoJ has backed off, doesn't mean that the states can't seek independant remedies.

    If they push hard enough, they might be able to impose their view of what punishment should be.

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    I like you, Stuart. You're not like everyone else, here, at Slashdot.
  2. Re:Growing tide of MS support.. by FatRatBastard · · Score: 5, Informative

    [BZZZZZZZ] Wrong... tell 'em what they're going home with Don Pardo.

    So you're telling me that the tech market in the last 5 years has been technically sound and the ONLY thing that made them collapse was Microsoft? I think you may need to brush up on how the market works. Sure, bellweather stocks influence smaller stocks, but if a smaller stock is FUNDAMENTALLY SOUND it will survive.

    So it wasn't the irrational exuberance of the telecom industry that fucked up Cisco, Lucent, et al, it was the gov't action against Microsoft? So it wasn't the fact that many pure dot.com companies were generating NO revenue that wasn't their downfall, it was the gov't action against Microsoft?
    Nice troll. No clue.

  3. Re:But it's not over by sheldon · · Score: 5, Informative

    This isn't a ruling at all, it's simply a refusal to hear a case.

    It was expected that this would be the case. But, again, nothing was upheld by the SCOTUS. The SCOTUS is simply stating, "Look, the appeals court appears to be dealing with this and we would rather let them do so for now. If that doesn't work out, then come talk to us again and we'll think about it some more."

    You are reading way too much into it. It's pretty much a non issue, and the most important thing happening is the negotiations at the appeals level.

  4. Re:But it's not over by terrywin · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sheldon is correct. A denial of cert means
    nothing.

    "...this [Supreme] Court has rigorously insisted that such a denial [to hear a case] carries with it no implication whatever regarding the Court's
    views on the merits of a case which it has declined to review. The Court has said this
    again and again; again and again the admonition has to be repeated."

    (Justice Frankfurter, Maryland v. Broadcast Radio Sho, Inc. 338 US 912, 1950)