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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems

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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (46342)11/11/2001 11:15:40 PM
From: Brian Sullivan  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
I still say the best remedy is to put Windows in the public domain ...
I guess the Justice Dept. didn't have the gonads to go forward with that kind of remedy...


Or any legal justification for such a remedy.

The only part of the lawsuit that was upheld by the appeals court was that some of the conditions in the contracts were illegal for a company that is judged to be a monopoly. Note that these same contract terms are perfect legal for a non monopoly company to have, so Microsoft was only being notified by the court after the fact that they could not have those types of contracts.
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