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The whole Microsoft/DOJ thing is more like a 60s Dracula film where the protaganist tracks down the vampire, kill it only to find it comes back to life and kills him instead. Maybe we could cast Larry Ellison as Van Helsing, Scott McNeally as Johnathan Harker and James Barksdale as Dr. Seward. How about Steve Balmer as Renfield? Does anyone really think that the appellate court or even the supreme court will drive a stake into Mircosoft's heart? The courts in this country pretty much come down on the side of intellectual property rights ALL the time. IMHO, the DOJ was never able to really show that intellecutal property right in the software industry are very different from those in other intellectual disciplines. Why should it? Th whole thing was instigated by M$ competitors who would probably engage in the same kind of activities if they had a chance. Thus, the DOJ will probably lose in the appallate court and maybe even the supreme court. Unless,of course,at least five of the justices have tried to install Windows on their PCs at home!;)
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The whole Microsoft/DOJ thing is more like a 60s Dracula film where the protaganist tracks down the vampire, kill it only to find it comes back to life and kills him instead. Maybe we could cast Larry Ellison as Van Helsing, Scott McNeally as Johnathan Harker and James Barksdale as Dr. Seward. How about Steve Balmer as Renfield? Does anyone really think that the appellate court or even the supreme court will drive a stake into Mircosoft's heart? The courts in this country pretty much come down on the side of intellectual property rights ALL the time. IMHO, the DOJ was never able to really show that intellecutal property right in the software industry are very different from those in other intellectual disciplines. Why should it? Th whole thing was instigated by M$ competitors who would probably engage in the same kind of activities if they had a chance. Thus, the DOJ will probably lose in the appallate court and maybe even the supreme court. Unless,of course,at least five of the justices have tried to install Windows on their PCs at home! ;)