I’m sorely disappointed in the U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly’s decision on Friday to give Micro$oft a DoJ-blessed slap on the wrist. I fear this case will have a profound negative influence on other anti-trust cases in the future, both in terms of M$ getting away with everything short of murder, and companies learning that if they just hold out, they’ll eventually get an Administration in Washington that doesn’t want to press on with such a suit.
While the more I read about the EU, the more I think their regulatory system is an unholy mess, I do hold out some hope that they might feebly crack a whip at M$. It won’t necessarily affect how things go here, but — well, if there’s one hegemony the world should be afraid of, it’s not located in Washington, DC, it’s located in Washington, Redmond.