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Kollar-Kotelly Rejects MS Bid For 4-Month Delay

Posted by timothy on from the sorry-no-cookie-for-you dept.

kalamazoo904 writes: "Off the Boston Globe and CNN newswires: Everyone's favorite convicted monopoly asked for more time to make up tall tales, but good Judge Kollar-Kotelly would have none of it. Penalty phase proceeds March 11 as planned."

11 comments

  1. Ironic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    MS programmers were always refused time extensions by the upper management. Now management gets the same treatement. The will of The Force?

  2. Remedies by gartogg · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "[The states] have asked Kollar-Kotelly to order Microsoft to sell a cheaper, stripped-down version of Windows..."
    THANK YOU! All I need now is a worse version of windows. This "new" "stripped down version" will not contain many of the features of windows we have come to know and love: crashes, freezing, and it won't keep that old favorite, memory handling that requires more RAM than a 10-foot thick steel reinforced concrete doorway to dracula's castle. It will not include macros in outlook, buffer overflow vulnerabilities in uPNP, or even allow users to modify their settings in a way that will destroy their computer without a warning screen.

    BUT there would be a upside to the remedy, including the fact that the new OS would cost less than a house (ok, less than a LARGE house) and will still run your computer. It may not allow you to access your files, but you will know they are safe. VERY safe. They are so safe that it will become uncertain if they even exist. It will have native support for high elvish, ojibwe, yoruba, aymara and, ever popular, frisian. These are the only languages it will support. Microsoft estimates that of the 87 people who speak one or more of these languages, 1 owns a computer. And he uses linux.

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    1. Re:Remedies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      geez .. i'd say a couple moderators missed the scarcasm

    2. Re:Remedies by gartogg · · Score: 1

      I'm just glad SOMEBODY noticed.

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  3. Re:Consumers Must Speak Out Now by The+FooMiester · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bill Gates' Microsoft Corporation -- has achieved such a dominant role in the global computer industry that it presents a serious threat to further competition, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

    But that's what embrace and extend is for. They take the new ideas, and under their great leadership, make sure the concepts are deployed properly, sanely, and then fully supported after release to the general public.

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  4. Forcing everyone to play even by Masem · · Score: 5, Informative
    One of MS's complaints and part of its request for more time was that several companies that are anti-Microsoft were being 'slow' in delivering documents to MS when they were requested; because it is in the best interests of those companies to play slow, MS wanted more time to get those docs. The decision to keep the trial going forward also includes stipulation that if these companies wish to testify during the penalty phase, they must cooperate fully with any requests for documentation from MS. Not only does this even the table for MS, giving them fewer reasons to cry for mistrial, but this also makes everyone else involved play fair. I'm sure companies like AOL and Sun would love to see more penalties on MS, but if those came about due to poor trial misconduct by others, then those penalties could easily be removed again by a higher court. At this point, the trial needs to move swiftly but with due process.

    Another note is that the judge has stated that she plans to address every point that the 9 dissenting states have presented as flaws in the current agreement, plus possibly any other flaws as described by the period of public comment. In other words, all those fears that those 9 states have aren't going to be simply swept under the carpet, but instead will focus scurtiny on the details of the agreement, and possibly remove some of the gapping escape holes that MS had in it.

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  5. Wrong department? by Stone+Rhino · · Score: 1

    What does this havce to do with YRO? Its not like a new CDA/DMCA/etc. has been passed. its just a development in the microsoft case. This is not something that affects OUR RIGHTS ONLINE.

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  6. It's still better than even for competitors... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Actually, there are more aspects to the ruling. This is a detailed account:
    http://www.technews.com/news/02/173446.html

    MS wanted to present its list of witnesses after the dissenting states did - rejected. MS wants competing firms to co-operate on sub-poenas - they are likely to misuse this right, but this is unlikely to give them leverage.

    The crux is this: MS wanted to get an agreement reached with the consenting states approved in Court, BEFORE the dissenting states went on their Voyage Of Discovery. This has been dismissed by the judge.

    NET Result? Dissenting states can wait for MS to defend the existing settlement, and use the PR to propose theirs. For once, the competing firms will be in the limelight and MS will be perceived to be the EvilBlackChap.