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Microsoft Antitrust Judgement

Posted by michael on from the it's-the-big-one dept.

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.

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  1. please michael, don't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I'll put some kind of summary text here once I've had a chance to read it.

    michael, given your well known hatred of microsoft, anything you write about this judgement has no value whatsover. if you have anything to say, please post a comment like the rest of us, and face the moderation wrath.

    thanks.

    1. Re:please michael, don't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Michael, you're probably watching this thread at this point. If not, whoever it is that's blowing mod points knocking this thread down, read this, please:
      Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting. The real goal here is to find the juicy good stuff and let others read it. Do not promote personal agendas. Do not let your opinions factor in. Try to be impartial about this. Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down.
      I recognize free speech is not an issue here--this is a privately-owned forum. But please, either reply defending your position, or ignore the post if you're too good to let us know what you're thinking. Don't hide behind editorial mod points, please.

      Poster, I apologize for replying after modding this up, but it was already back down to -1 by the time the page loaded up again.

    2. Re:please michael, don't by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 1, Offtopic
      somebody with mod points please restore the balance here.
      Impossible. We only get 5 mod points every six months or so, whe the "editors" get unlimited mod points 24/7. They always win. Don't like it? Go somewhere else.

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    3. Re:please michael, don't by photon317 · · Score: 1, Offtopic


      I've got karma to burn, keep opressing me.

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  2. Re:Slashdoted in record time by asparagus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Oh, that's nothing.

    Lawyers have been doing this for years.

    -Brett

  3. Re:Huh? by CySurflex · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Really smart posting as Anonymous Coward when anyone can click on "Freaks" on my profile and see your name.

  4. 25ks of PDF by jukal · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    to deliver a few hundred characters of ASCII. By delivering these judgments (and there are gazillions of those in the site) in some more sensible (and at the same time more user friendly) format they could probably order everyone a free pizza instead for spending it on bandwith. It's just incredibly stupid to download stuff in more than *20 excess size and to launch a and need an external program to view the content. Hey, but it's official it got to be PDF!

  5. Re:What a helpful article! by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your right, after all we don't want to take any time away from the /. editors that they could be using to spell check/grammar check/dup check stories.

  6. Re:Fascinating -- MOD PARENT UP by davinciII · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MOD PARENT UP!!!!!!

    this is not offtopic!

  7. Re:the replies to this post by rmohr02 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oops, wrong link. Try this one.

    Note to the naive: don't click. Ever. I warned you.

  8. Re:Fascinating by Xerithane · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thanks, I got Karma to burn.

    This is not OFFTOPIC. It is directly related to it's parent: Here.

    Which is at +5. I got 3 mods in the same minute. All -1, Offtopic. You want to tell me how that works?

    If my post was offtopic, take your fanboy above down to -1 too, because it's just as offtopic as his.

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  9. Re:the replies to this post by EvilBudMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey I can do that too +1

    M$ SUX

    redundant but oh well

  10. Re:Public comment -- ignored by the government by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    Ever since Bush got into office, this country has been a disaster. Look at what he's doing/done to the national debt, the economy, domestic privacy, unions, international relations (although the Chinese and Russians love his new "first strike" doctrine), etc. etc. etc. I can't believe I'm saying this, but things were better under his Father! George the First is the former head of the frick'n C frick'n I frick'n A and he didn't dream of the revocations of civil liberties his son has imposed on us.

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  11. MAC OS X for Intel is a certainty now by vandelais · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    that's all.
    eom

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  12. This is Interesting by RodeoBoy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since when is stating the obvious is interesting. Anyone at this point who is not awaire it is a civil case and nobody is going to jail, should crawl out from under the rock they live in, or away from that computer in that dark room. Come out the sunshine is good for you. As far as anyone who would mode this post up should have their head checked. Interesting, as if. Karma is bullshit.

  13. Yawn by BagMan2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hate to sound like a troll, but I think everybody is blowing this whole thing way out of proportion. Every once in a while somebody needs to remind slashdot that Linux makes for a marginally useful general purpose operating system. Microsoft dominates the market because their products are better, plain and simple (unless you define better as "can run on a 386 with 4mb of RAM").

    I couldn't care less about what marketting practices Microsoft uses; as far as I am concerned, let it be survival of the fittest.

    Windows 98 sucked, I will grant you that, but Windows 2000/XP are fantastic operating systems. All of the Microsoft Office products do everything I could possibly want to do and then some. And above all, I consider the price of it all quite reasonable.

    I have tried Linux and Star Office, etc, and quite frankly they suck compared to Microsoft products. They always lag behind in features, ease of use, and compatibility. I know it's not a popular opinion here at Slashdot, but until you give people like me a compelling reason to change, why should I? I am getting more than I need already from Microsoft for a price I consider reasonable.

    I am not a blind follower of Microsoft. For the few products I actually use day to day, I generally try several different options (warez :) and then put my money into the one that I like the best. Microsoft doesn't always win, but Linux-based products NEVER seem to win. Make a better product, and my money and support is yours. Until then, it seems like spilt milk to me.

  14. Please mod up parent post by cscx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Michael is a total fucktard; the simple fact that your post is pointing this out (which is very clearly related to this article) does not deserve a mod-down.