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

25ks of PDF

[jukal]

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!

Re:Public comment -- ignored by the government

[Rick the Red]

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.