Microsoft Antitrust Judgement

An anonymous reader writes "Here are the links to the as-yet-unreleased judgement in the Microsoft case by CKK: Final Decree, Memorandum Opinion, Public Interest Order, Opinion on the State Settlement, State Settlement Order." In brief: Kollar-Kotelly accepts the settlement that the Federal Gov't and some states wanted, but she wants a minor change to it; and she has decided the case which was pursued by the other states as well, mostly ordering Microsoft to refrain from certain behaviors with regard to the user-visible desktop. Overall: a massive win for Microsoft, who can restrict the release of its APIs to major commercial companies only.

Comments

Legal JOKE

[catwh0re]

If this was say a non-american company, or a company that didn't top the list in political contributions. I wonder how differently the result would have been. As this really does make a joke of the American legal system: Get Proven Guilty for a crime, which has been proven (not supposed, but proven) to have sent many thousands without their jobs, and many large companies into tiny small ones. All that the American government will give you is a slap on the wrist. It figures that MS in NYC illegally plastered MSN8 butterflies everywhere. As should the government take any action it is apparent that it comes out far more cost effective to just break the law and deal with the platry legal consequences.

Re:Will any of this make a difference?

[jedidiah]

Your comment is worthless. You try to comment on monopolies and then bring up oligopolies as examples. Try finding some "real economists" that can point to relavent examples.