States Seek More Oversight of Microsoft

taoman1 writes "A group of states led by California said in a court filing Thursday that ending oversight of Microsoft's business practices in November would not allow enough time to consider the antitrust implications of Windows Vista. The states want oversight extended at least through early next year. 'The justice department said in its report that while Microsoft's operating system market share hasn't dropped because of the consent decree, "it would misapprehend the purpose of the Final Judgments to rely on these facts to argue that the Final Judgments have been ineffective. Microsoft was never found to have acquired or increased its monopoly market share unlawfully." In its report, Microsoft directly countered California's claims and said, the "Final Judgments were never designed to reduce Microsoft's share in any putative market."'"

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Re:Likely modded into oblivion

[Anonymous Coward]

You are a fagot :)

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[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

OS X = BSD done right.
Linux didn't really contribute anything, even ideologically. Next Step = OS X which was prior to any popular version of Linux.

Re:FOSSies don't care

[Anonymous Coward]

Well the point of FOSS is freedom of choice. I would rather the open source community dictate to me what I can do than Microsoft tell me what I can do. Because if MS tells me what I can do it is also going to cost $X for the OS, $Y for the software packages, and $Z for the licenses. Thus they might be telling me I cannot do anything because I cannot afford it. At least with OSS I have a chance of competing. The MS model is becoming computing for the "haves" and the hell with the "have-nots."

That's funny. My company uses proprietary software for some things but generally when there are problems we have to hope that the developer/company cares enough about us to give us a fix. FOSS is far more stable and when there are problems we can fix it ourselves.

An Amusing Write up in EWeek.

[twitter]

Very good points, as is the death of non free competition on Windoze, satirically reported as Microsoft Antitrust Settlement Is a Success! Everywhere you look, you find yet more evidence of coercion and wrong doing.