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Microsoft Is Poised to Launch Antitrust Defense | |
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| Time: 14:37 EST/19:37 GMT | News Source: Reuters | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Microsoft Corp will launch its defense in federal court this week, looking to neutralize four weeks of witnesses who backed sweeping antitrust sanctions to overcome the company's monopoly power. Up to 30 people drawn from the computer industry and Microsoft's own ranks, including Chairman Bill Gates, are expected to testify against the sanctions sought by nine states opposed to a proposed settlement of the landmark case. Microsoft will try to convince U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly that the states' demands are legally flawed and threaten the very fabric of the computer industry. | ||
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| #1 By 2459 (66.25.124.8) at 4/14/2002 4:16:25 PM |
| Good Luck. |
| #2 By 20 (68.53.242.24) at 4/14/2002 4:22:51 PM |
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Hopefully Microsoft's defense will be slightly less incompetent than the plantiff.
Although, Microsoft will be bringing intelligent, successful people who make money and innovate to the stand, whereas the States brought losers and followers to the stand. |
| #3 By 135 (208.50.201.48) at 4/14/2002 9:36:27 PM |
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As far as the liberal/conservative... Take a look at those involved. Do the names Robert Bork and Kenneth Starr sound familiar?
This is some sort of weird perversion of the protectionist mantra. |
| #4 By 3653 (65.190.70.73) at 4/14/2002 10:42:39 PM |
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It is not so much a liberal conservative thing... because regardless of which label they are under... they are all fukcing lawyers. That my friends... is the real problem! This post was edited by mooresa56 on Sunday, April 14, 2002 at 22:44. |
| #5 By 135 (208.50.201.48) at 4/15/2002 12:59:49 AM |
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bob670 - You've obviously been listening to the distort speech from the far right if you think President Clinton was anything but a centrist. You also need to read David Brock's book. If you continue spouting that ridiculous hate speech, I'll be forced to shred you. It also doesn't represent the direction the Republican party is currently going in, as the hate mongering stalwarts of old have been dropping out like flies.
This case is about protectionism, but it's an odd sort because it targets a US company. Protectionism is historically a conservative agenda item, as it relates to the isolationist mindset. However, what it usually is really about is the cash flowing into the coffers from the lobbyists, and as such either party can play along. This also explains this current case. The DOJ was going to get involved no matter who was in office, because Microsoft has quite honestly not been playing fair. Where I disagree is with the direction the case took with the Netscape thing and the "adding features = bundling" charges. The break up was ill advised, as is the present non-settling state's doing the bidding of MS competitors. All that's needed is some language allowing computer OEMs to install, configure and customize a desktop they ship to a consumer in any manner they so desire without damaging their contracts with Microsoft. |
| #6 By 931 (24.98.84.138) at 4/15/2002 5:29:49 AM |
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While a disagree with #12's first paragraph.. the rest of his post is dead-on.
This all could have been settled in about one day back in 1997.... just ease up on the oems and tweek some language in a some contracts... this current debate of remedies is insane. |
| #7 By 135 (208.50.201.48) at 4/15/2002 9:25:54 AM |
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bob670 - Maybe it's time you got over yourself?
I'm curious who is the real scumbag. Clinton, or the men and women whose intention it was to destroy the very Government they pretended to want to represent? Clinton didn't do half the things he was accused of, rather there was a concerted effort to discredit his Presidency by launching a barrage of false attacks and investigations. This is all documented now in David Brock's book. That, my friend, is what history will show. When all is said and done what we have is a President who followed through on his commitment to balance the budget, and led the United States through a decade of the greatest economic growth this nation had seen since the 1950's. Contrast this with his enemies, whose only lasting impression on the nation was to foster the hate speech and attitudes which led to Timothy McVeigh blowing up the Oklahoma City Federal building. It's no wonder they've all hidden back into the shadows, they're hopefully too ashamed to go out in public. That is not to say I am not somewhat disappointed with President Clinton. I think if he had done a better job at attacking back at his critics instead of implicitly condoning it through passivity, he could have been the greatest President this nation had seen since Roosevelt. Instead we just have to be satisified with him being the greatest President in the last two decades of the twentieth century. |
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