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U.S. Faults Microsoft Licensing Compliance
An anonymous reader writes "In a written report card on how well Microsoft is complying with its 2001 antitrust deal with state and federal prosecutors, Justice Department lawyers said they might need the court to force Microsoft to act more quickly." The DOJ's court filing is online if you want to wade through it.
"Justice Department lawyers said they might need the court to force Microsoft to act more quickly."
well that is a real shocker
If there is nothing left worth living, what are you willing to die for?
...is online if you want to wade through it
Well, I have been having problems sleeping recently.
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
Yeah... harsher penalties... hee hee... HA... HA... sorry... can't stop... LAUGHING!
(chuckles)
From the ref article:
"One condition that caused particular outcry was Microsoft charging an upfront fee of $100,000 for rivals to examine the code to see whether they want to buy it. If they don't, they only get $50,000 back."
So what's the fee to take one single look at the pile of crap and say " Holy crap! This costs $100,000??"
Bride wants to marry IBM and screw Linux. Brother MS willing to pay any dowry.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
They just need to put in a call to their favorite guy, Ashcroft, and get him to tell the lawyers to backoff.
Do not spread "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0" over the internet, thank you.
The time has come, repent all you sinners, for the shiny saucers of the sex goddess are coming to deliver us!
This, as everybody knows, has been predicted in the Holy Scriptures of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs! Convert before it is too late, heathens!
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
> It comes as no suprise that Microsoft isn't even living up to an antitrust settlement that is this painless. From day 1, it looked as if they had no intention of following it through, and now, it seems as if the lawsuit was never filed at all.
At least they didn't laugh about the settlement this time around.
At least not in public.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
If Microsoft continues to fail to comply, the court will double their fine.
Let's work it out: the original fine was $0, twice $0 is $0, so the new fine will be $0.
I guess American justice is the best that money can buy.
For someone who espouses capitalism you seem to have read neither Adam Smith or the DOJ judgement and you have no idea about anti-trust laws and why they exist.
If I were you I'd shut up until you know what you are talking about...hang on...your posting on Slashdot..mumble...forget it
No but, yeah but, no but...
Except the English police will wack you senseless with their extendable batons if you don't do what they say...
Ethics is what you say you do. Morals is what you actually do.
I give Microsoft a C++ (a passing grade with room for improvement). The settlement was vastly watered down by their legal team anyway....
Video Game cheats, hints a
I have no idea how someone could ever use 40 million dollars in their lifetime, let alone 40 billion.
I would.
I would invest heavily in genetics, cybernetics, and behaviour sciences to create...wait for it... cyborg monkey butlers!
In other words, I would use that money to make the world a better place.
With more monkeys.
You can't take the sky from me...
It's tempting to say "You know a company is corrupt when even Ashcroft says so."
But remember what part of the election cycle we're approaching before drawing too many conclusions here. This will all blow over before you can say "Judge Jackson was biased in favor of the truth."
microsoftword.mp3 - it doesn't care that they're not words...
"I'm quite sure it's not a bug - it's a Microsoft feature."
Are you sure there is a difference?
we are all invisible unless we choose otherwise
DOJ: Microsoft is not complying with the settlment terms. Fetch the Comfy Chair!!
Bailiff: The... Comfy Chair??!!
DOJ: So you think you are strong because you scoff at our remedies. Well, we shall see. Bailiff! Put them in the Comfy Chair! Now -- you will stay in the Comfy Chair until lunch time, with only a cup of coffee at eleven.
..in pursuit of that almighty symbol $ they absolutely will not stop until your buisness is dead.
Microsoft or the Justice Department?
Microsoft is mostly following through with its settlement with the federal government.
So I guess that means Microsoft won't mind if I MOSTLY comply with thier EULA for Windows XP.
"You don't need a weatherman/ To know which way the wind blows" -Bob Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Blues
Actually I would say it is a pebkac (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair) as I have never had a problem setting other applications to open AVIs than Media Player in XP.
Civil war? I think you mean revolution unless you still regard yourselves as British. I know you still have a mad king...er....president George but its not quite the same you know.
Honey! The Microsoft took a crap on the rug again! Have you been feeding it biscuits?
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
He'd answer you, but to do that he'd have to empty Dubya's sperm from his mouth. Come back later, k?
--Secretary to Mr. Ashcroft