Microsoft Not Out Of Anti-Trust Hot Water

Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 5, 2003 @11:43AM from the lukewarm-is-more-like-it dept.

tickticker writes "EWeek is reporting on the Anti-Trust follow up, and of course it sounds like a victory for Justice: 'The judges 'were encouraging in the sense that they went to the heart of the case,' Robert Bork, who represented the Computer and Communications Industry Association and the Software and Information Industry Association, said following the court arguments. Bork formerly was a judge on the appeals court.' Microsoft comments included the 'abundance of choice' defence. Which to me means that Microsoft wants the last of the hold-outs to choose Microsoft."

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Re:On to more relevant things by majorflaw · 2003-11-05 13:29 · Score: 0, Flamebait

"There should be some sort of percentage of profits reaped from the anti-competitive behavior that should be taken away. $10,000,000 is a drop in the bucket for microsoft. The penalty should be stiffer."

If you expect the Bush/Ashcroft Justice Department to push for harsher penalties against corporate criminals, you must be an extremely optimistic person. Under Clinton's AG, the US won a *big* victory, after trial vs. MS. As soon as Bush took over, the Justice Dep't lost all interest in actually enforcing that victory. I may be paranoid but I suspect that MS money and the Bushies have been talking.