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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (23997)6/10/2000 4:30:00 PM
From: Gerald R. Lampton  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
Here's another post to the judge's WSJ interview article:

zdnet.com

One thing that is interesting is how everything this judge has said in public has been designed in some way or other to bolster his decision. Three of his comments that really stick out are:

1. It was a credibility contest. Credibility contests are hard to overturn on appeal.

2. He wanted the parties to settle and only imposed a breakup after they didn't and after Microsoft proved itself untrustworthy in and out of court. This is obviously designed to deflect criticism that the decision was extreme.

3. He's a conservative Republican. Again, designed to deflect criticism.

4. He refers to statements by Gates and Ballmer that Microsoft did nothing wrong and evidence, much of it not introduced into the record, that Microsoft continues to do business as before.

This is the same judge who, back during the Consent Decree case, performed an out of court demonstration of the Windows uninstall function to show how easy it was to remove the browser. I guess Microsoft became untrustworthy from that point forward, and everything else they said and did during the trial just added to that initial impression.

If I were Joel Klein, I would not be smiling.
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