West Virginia Joins Massachusetts in MS Appeal Bid

diwolf writes "West Virginia is seeking to join Massachusetts in appealing a U.S. District Court decision that rejected a tough antitrust remedy sought by nine states in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case. This is also being reported at CNN and ZDNet."

Comments

Alright!

[KristsInferno]

I was hoping someone else would have some balls. #3? Anyone?

Re:Its good to see

[parliboy]

Bush pardoning a death sentence? Well, that's something you don't see everyday.

Re:Its good to see

[Waffle Iron]

Executives across the country are empowered with discharging mercy where due--a breakup is a death sentence for a corporation,

LOL. There's a couple of hundred guys down in Texas you can ask about W's sense of mercy when it comes to death sentences. Oh wait... you can't ask them any more.

Well, at least he's found it in his heart to spare poor Microsoft. All is forgiven. Go forth and sin no more.

Re:Hrm...

[Zeinfeld]

On the other hand though, how hard would it be for Microsoft to just give the option upon install of not installing these components?

I suggested to Bill's people that they produce a version of Windows called Windows DS (Dissenting States) Edition. This would be exactly the same as normal XP except that the media player, browser etc shells would not be there (but the dlls they access would be since they are pretty fundamental).

My guess is that absolutely noone would buy it since the idea of getting half a loaf was never something the consumers were demanding, it was the software houses.

No response yet on that one, although Bill did tell me in an email that in a move to demonstrate his appretiation of the open source movement, Melinda is going to cook a penguin for Christmass dinner.