DOJ Argues in Favor of MS Settlement

hpa writes: "It is described in this article on CNET the Department of Justice is arguing in favour of the proposed settlement, because the government's case was too weak to impose additional penalties on Microsoft. Somehow this seems like a very odd thing to me, effectively the prosecution is pleading on the part of the defendant..." There's also an AP story.

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Ashcroft

[panda]

Jacking in on the weird but true port:

What do you expect from an Attorney General who LOST an election to a dead guy. Yep, that's right he ran for Senate against a guy who died too close to the election for his name to be removed from the ballot, and the dead guy one. It says something when the people would rather have a literal corpse in the Senate instead of you. Then Shrub goes and appoints the loser A.G. Guess it helps to have powerful friends.

Re:You Disgust Me, calling peaceful protest terror

[ncc74656]

I would try to explain to you the importance of peaceful protest, taken part at such events as the WTO meetings.

I wasn't aware that throwing rocks through shop windows and fighting with police was considered "peaceful" by some. In that assumption, I erred.

Go crawl back under your bridge.

Re:Sad state of affairs

[scrytch]

I'd just mod this down as OVER-FUCKING-RATED -- insight? It's a rant, at least Chomsky puts forth evidence -- but I feel really compelled to respond.

Terrorism? What kind of social retard are you to compare a ruthless monopoly to murderers. I want you to stand in front of anyone who's lost a loved one and tell them that you're in the same boat because you have to pay a hundred bucks extra on a PC, and that operating systems progress has been held back. I'm not a violent person, so really the tragedy in that might be that you'd end up getting beaten before the realization got beaten into your head that your comparison is full of shit.

Unbelievable.