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Microsoft Judge Takes His Case to the Public

Posted by Hemos on from the takin'-it-to-the-street dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post reports: "About 15 months after the Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit rebuked U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson for talking to the media in the Microsoft antitrust case, Jackson has formally filed his rebuttal.""

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Power to the people!!!!

  2. First post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post!
    Or something.

  3. Yahoo : Windows more secure than Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The truth revealed:


    Linux, which is even newer than Windows and is not controlled by a single commercial entity, can be expected to have even more vulnerabilities than Windows.

  4. If KATZ hadn't quit, he could comment on this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  5. Do you mean judges whose decisions are overturned? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  6. OT rant. by Lethyos · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And OT, I find it really weird to see ANY Microsoft ad on /. at all.

    I've been noticing more and more of these as of late. I've counted more Microsoft VisualStudio.NET adds here than from any other single vendor. It's really distressing for a few reasons. Slashdot is supposed to be a bastion of open source. Freedom in computing. Instead, its helping support the entity that is single most determined to destroy everything we have.

    People say: "we're not at war with Microsoft. Free and proprietary software need to co-exist. Blah blah blah."

    New flash people: we are at war. Even if we don't want to trounce them, they want to trounce us - badly. Any foothold we give them (like letting them peddle their products to people who may not yet understand the issues) is a loss on our part.

    Advirtising Microsoft on /. makes us largely hipocrites. I think we need to abandon this "community".

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    Why bother.
  7. No excuses for Judge Jackson by Strudelkugel · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you read his Findings of Fact, you will find it is full of illogic such as that stated in section V.G.2:

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    V. MICROSOFT'S RESPONSE TO THE BROWSER THREAT

    G. Microsoft's Success in Excluding Navigator from the Channels that Lead Most Efficiently to Browser Usage

    2. Excluding Navigator from the OEM Channel

    152. Moreover, many consumers who need an operating system, including a substantial percentage of corporate consumers, do not want a browser at all. For example, if a consumer has no desire to browse the Web, he may not want a browser taking up memory on his hard disk and slowing his system's performance. Also, for businesses desiring to inhibit employees' access to the Internet while minimizing system support costs, the most efficient solution is often using PC systems without browsers.

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    I see, a browser is useless without the web, and it hampers corporate efficiency because it takes up too much disk space and IT time. Meanwhile, we have Worldcom perpetrating a multi-BILLION dollar fraud, Enron cooking their books and ripping off California power customers for a few hundred million. So what does Judge Jackson find important? Free browsers.

    Softee was dumb not to settle this thing from the beginning, but the DOJ was certainly going after the wrong company in terms of "harm to the consumer." Guess that's what happens when lawsuits are instigated by competitors.

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