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To: tiquer who wrote (30653)	4/13/2000 4:31:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) of 64865

tiquer - re: THEY BROKE THE FRIGGIN LAW!!!! It is exactly this kind of silly black and white analysis that makes it hard to blow the smoke off the battlefield and see what's really going on. Judge Jackson determined that MSFT contract practices were not coercive or exclusionary - the DOJ lost that one. So on the base case of contract law, MSFT is not guilty - ie did not break the friggin law. The "law" that MSFT broke according to Jackson is the Sherman anti-trust law. The finding depends on the notion that MSFT had a monopoly. The same practices which are illegal for a monopoly are just fine for someone who is not a monopoly. So all of the "holier than thou" stuff needs to be toned down - if SUNW were found to be a monopoly, their business practices would probably be illegal too.

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