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FC: Judge Jackson singles out Gates; MS vows to keep fighting
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 06:59:34 -0800
[Gates' name appears on 67 separate lines of the findings of fact document.] http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32377,00.html Judge: 'Gates Was Main Culprit' by Declan McCullagh 3:00 a.m. 6.Nov.1999 PST Bill Gates was directly involved in strong-arming companies into kowtowing to Microsoft's demands, according to US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. Jackson's 207-page condemnation of Microsoft released late Friday reads like a litany of precisely the same offenses the company's enemies have spent years complaining about -- and spent much of the trial accusing the world's richest antitrust defendant of masterminding. [...] http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32375,00.html Microsoft Keeps its Dukes Up by Declan McCullagh 6:40 p.m. 5.Nov.1999 PST Microsoft is vowing to keep up the good fight. Publicly undaunted from a bitter defeat in its long-running antitrust case, the company is putting the best face possible on the court's preliminary ruling that the company had an extensive, long-standing monopoly that thwarted innovation and hurt consumers. Bill Gates told reporters who gathered in the Microsoft Studios in Redmond that "Microsoft is committed to resolving this case in a fair and responsible manner, while ensuring that the principles of consumer benefit and innovation are protected." A good measure of how terribly the company lost this initial round can be found in a Microsoft press release from late Friday. It said that the court had "recognized in paragraph 408 of its findings that consumers have benefited from Microsoft's actions," and quoted from the factual findings. What it didn't say is that paragraph 408 was just about the only place in the 207-page opinion where US District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson found anything nice to say about Microsoft. [...] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to majordomo () vorlon mit edu with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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