JollyRoger
May 17th, 2000, 06:02 PM
Looks like MS may have had it, read this (it's from a newsletter distributed free by my ISP)
MICROSOFT'S PLEA DISMISSED
The U.S. Justice department has thrown out Microsoft's own
proposals to remedy its anti-trust violations.
The "remedies" included:
Allowing manufacturers to delete the Microsoft Explorer icon from
the start-up screen and to display icons for non-Microsoft
products
Preventing Microsoft from entering into licensing agreements for
Windows-based products on an understanding that the other party
limit distribution of rival software
Barring Microsoft from denying any independent software developer
complete access to technical information it makes available to the
software community at large
Microsoft asked the Judge to scrap the break-up plan and delay
any decision until December.
In its reply, the Justice Department said of the plan: "It would
not prevent Microsoft from engaging in many of the illegal acts
found by the district court, nor would it prevent the company from
using its monopoly power in the future to engage in the same kind
of illegal behaviour to crush new innovations."
Earlier, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told an industry
conference: "Our company will not be broken up. It will not
happen."
The case continues
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Look out!!
My train of thought is a runaway!!
MICROSOFT'S PLEA DISMISSED
The U.S. Justice department has thrown out Microsoft's own
proposals to remedy its anti-trust violations.
The "remedies" included:
Allowing manufacturers to delete the Microsoft Explorer icon from
the start-up screen and to display icons for non-Microsoft
products
Preventing Microsoft from entering into licensing agreements for
Windows-based products on an understanding that the other party
limit distribution of rival software
Barring Microsoft from denying any independent software developer
complete access to technical information it makes available to the
software community at large
Microsoft asked the Judge to scrap the break-up plan and delay
any decision until December.
In its reply, the Justice Department said of the plan: "It would
not prevent Microsoft from engaging in many of the illegal acts
found by the district court, nor would it prevent the company from
using its monopoly power in the future to engage in the same kind
of illegal behaviour to crush new innovations."
Earlier, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told an industry
conference: "Our company will not be broken up. It will not
happen."
The case continues
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Look out!!
My train of thought is a runaway!!