Microsoft, Feds Revise Settlement Agreement

An Anonymous Coward writes: "This AP article writes of some changes negotiated by MS and the Justice Department to the anti-trust settlement. MS urges Judge Kollar-Kotelly to accept the settlement it negotiated with the Justice Department b/c doing otherwise would raise constitutional issues. Please."

Comments

constitutional issues?

[Anonymous Coward]

Did M$ take the 5th on their source code?

Re:constitutional issues?

[nahtanoj]

No, but the programmers did plead temporary insanity.

nahtanoj

Excellent news

[l33t j03]

I hope this is accepted. Microsoft will be able to put all this ugliness behing them and get back to doing what they do best, coding up the most advanced software ever known.

This will also be good for the Open Source community as they will be in a position to steal all those wonderful MS innovations.

A Little Fun...

[webword]

Don't you wish that you had the resources to play games with the courts when you got parking and speeding tickets?

Microsoft's Proposed Penalties

[tcd004]

Microsoft's Proposed Penalties

'Nuff said.

tcd004

A Great Deal of Misunderstanding and Wild charges

[gehrehmee]

Sony Corp., for example, had complained to the government that the provision "would diminish Sony's ability to assert its patents ... and thereby may enable Microsoft to expand its power into new areas."

Microsoft described those complaints as "a great deal of misunderstanding and wild charges that Microsoft would use the right to misappropriate the intellectual property of others."

"Well, sure the settlement would give us the right to misappropriate the intellectual property of others. But we're genuinely insulted that anyone would suggest we would use that right..."

Microsoft's Bill of Rights

[dubdays]

(I) Freedom of monopolies.
(II) Right to bear arms against the competition.
(III) Right for a BSA henchman to occupy your home or place of business.
(IV) Right to search everyone's computer without their consent.
(V) The right for Microsoft to lie in defense.
(VI) The right to draw out a trial for years to extract every last dime from taxpayers.
(VII) Right to trial by judges who are technologically illiterate.
(VIII) Right to inflict cruel and unusual punishment against anyone using a non-Microsoft OS.
(IX) Microsoft has numerous inalienable rights not granted to anyone else.
(X) Any rights not explicitly granted to Microsoft are exclusively reserved by Microsoft for future litigation.

Re:Microsoft's Bill of Rights

[Anonymous Coward]

That should be Microsoft's Rights of Bill.

Poll (was Re:Stalling Tactics)

[Rupert]

Microsoft is using these arguments as stall tactics to:

- Wear the DoJ down
- Waste our tax monies
- Tire the states
- Prevent the release of the windows source code

You forgot:

- Cowboy Neal