Here here, I agree totally. Breaking up M$ is something that the Redmondians have been prepared for since the notion of "breakup" was first mentioned sometime ago - Don't you thing they've spent a considerable amount of time and energy on a viable contingency? The DOJ, hopefully, understands at least a little about what's going on. The issues as I see it is the tactics M$ uses to lock out competition and re-invent standards that only utlilizes M$ products. If the DOJ gets it on this level then M$ may not be very comfortable at the "settlement" talks. Remember, the issues is to leash M$ not kill them (though I for one wouldn't shed a tear if M$ went the way of the Dodo - which I never thought they would. Breaking up M$ may even be the worst of the alternatives. The real hurts is to open code, access to API's, and the nature of control that M$ uses in their business contracts with their partners, associates, and clients. Cheers, Curtis On Thursday 06 September 2001 02:35 pm, dep wrote:
On Thursday 06 September 2001 14:51, Cliff Sarginson wrote: | Maybe the so-called Department of Justice should get renamed.. | The Department of Obeying Our Political Masters | | This is a political decision, not a judicial one.
nonsense. a decision to split up microsoft would accomplish nothing. and the bundling case was a very bad one. what no one seems to have noticed is that at the same time justice subpoenaerd *everything* microsoft has done since the court's initial findings.
honestly. everybody's reacting to what i and a lot of others have been calling for for years as if it's bad news.