Microsoft Antitrust Oversight Ends

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @12:27PM from the you're-free-to-assimilate dept.

dcblogs writes "The US Department of Justice remedies supervision in the Microsoft antitrust case ends Thursday, closing the landmark case, which began in 1998. But the questions posed by trial federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's attempted remedy remain: Did tech innovation suffer over the last 10 years because Microsoft wasn't broken up? 'Not really,' said Vinton Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist, 'It has to do with the fact that open source has become such a strong force in the software world.'"

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Re:Hard to say that, but google really looks evil? by dragonhunter21 · 2011-05-11 12:39 · Score: 1, Redundant

Google stated yesterday that it will not release the source code for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) until after the release of the next version of Android (Ice Cream Sandwich).

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