Appeals Court OKs Microsoft Antitrust Settlement

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Appeals Court OKs Microsoft Antitrust Settlement

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 1, 2004 @04:36AM from the sure-fellas-that-looks-fine dept.

mbstone writes "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has upheld [pdf] the settlement reached between Microsoft and the U.S. Justice Department in the antitrust case filed in 1998, beating back a challenge by Massachusetts, the only state that didn't settle. Many critics, of course, believe that Attorney General John Ashcroft took a dive on the case which was originally filed by former Clinton Administration Attorney General Janet Reno."

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HAPPY CANADA DAY by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-01 04:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Yeah boyeeez!
1. Re:HAPPY CANADA DAY by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-01 04:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Is this Unboxing Day?
fp by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-01 04:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

flip plop fart plop first post!!!!!

mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
firstone by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-01 04:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

onefirst
Seriously: Why is this a YRO article? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-01 04:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

This is just a bickering match between the govt and MS. This really has no bearing on your "rights".
Re:articles by ryan76 · 2004-07-01 04:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

How does it not render the ./ page properly? I've been using Firefox forever and don't see too many pages anymore that look wrong in it.

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More interesting link by whereiswaldo · 2004-07-01 05:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic

If you're not much into lawyer speak, try this link n' shit.
m\oD up by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-01 05:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic

InventingF excuses
Re:articles by rd4tech · 2004-07-01 05:07 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I have to ctrl+- each time to refresh the thing after loading the page. I'm having 0.8 under linux and 0.9 on my windows machine, same problem persists on both of them.
That and it doesn't renders "windows 1251" charset properly.
Re:articles by vk2 · 2004-07-01 05:09 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Try hitting cntrl-r a couple of times you will see what he means - Not sure if this is a firefox bug - I have seen mozilla too doing the same (overlapping 2 verticle columns).

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search engine broken -- not surprised by NynexNinja · 2004-07-01 05:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

When I searchedd for "linux", I got no results found for "linux", then a couple minutes later, it returned some results, then when I clicked to goto the next page, it crapped out with this cryptic error message:

Search Error

MSN Search is temporarily unable to process your request.

Please try again in a few minutes.

EID: f:2114719238 - 1041:1041:10004:1059

HC: 71d61b16
Happy Moving day to the people of Québec by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-01 05:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Actually in Québec they celebrate another
holiday, moving day.
July 1st is the day that all appartments leases
expire and when a large portion of the population
moves. There are more people moving than people
celebrating the holiday.
The actual national day in Québec is June 24th.
Ah Timothy... by BTWR · 2004-07-01 05:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It wouldn't be a "posted by Timothy" article if it didn't have an editorial (and offtopic) anti-Bush/US * rant.

*No, I don't equate anti-Bush to equal anti-US... just ol' Timmy happens to do it a lot.
Re:BUSH ini 2004!!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-01 05:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Actually, I could use a good ***-raping. Thanks for your thought.
Re:articles by ShadeARG · 2004-07-01 05:27 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Slashdot is far from valid markup. Check for yourself here. Quirks render mode isn't standard, hence why it's called quirks. To tell which render mode Mozilla is using, right click on the page and View Page Info.
Re:articles by ShadeARG · 2004-07-01 05:29 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Ahem, here.