Microsoft Case Enters Crucial Penalty Phase

An Anonymous Coward points out an article from Joseph Menn's in the Los Angeles Times which begins: "Microsoft -- Nine states waging a landmark antitrust battle against Microsoft Corp. are preparing to venture into territory that has been barely visible during the past years of legal slogging: the future." This delves slightly into ways in which the states in legal conflict with Microsoft would like to see Microsoft constrained legally going forward.

Comments

Just let them kill themselves...

[bytes256]

Microsoft will probably self-destruct do to their own incompetence, just like every other powerful computer company before it. IBM once seemed impenetrable...now they're just a minor player in the PC industry. Apple once seemed to be the future of personal computing...they're just now returning to the upswing. Sun and all the *NIX vendors are dying slow and painful deaths.

If nothing else, license restrictions and dramatically increased licensing costs will make many corporations think twice about continuing to use Microsoft products. Microsoft's user base is eroding at both ends. Apple on the consumer market...free *nix on the high end.

Re:More?

[NecroPuppy]

There were 25 additional states that came in on the side of the Nine, in opposition to the MS contention that the Nine could not go forward on their own.

They don't necessarily support the fact that the Nine are going forward on their own, but they do support that the Nine should be able to do so.

That really boils down to a State's Rights issue.

Re:More States enter Microsoft case

[Metrollica]

Exact links are:

here here here here