{"id":3497,"date":"2002-11-06T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2002-11-06T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3497"},"modified":"2002-11-06T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2002-11-06T16:00:15","slug":"the_beat_goes_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/06\/the_beat_goes_o.html","title":{"rendered":"The Beat Goes On"},"content":{"rendered":"

Micro$oft, having been hit with a slap on the wrist in the DoJ battle, is not out of the woods yet. Waiting in the wings are various civil suits<\/a> which build on the findings of fact from the DoJ case. Judge Jackson determined that, by cracky, M$ was acting as a monopoly and had done some bad things thereby. The DoJ could get all squishy on them because their <\/i>emphasis was on how to keep M$ from doing bad things any more. But Sun, Netscape, et al., are out for blood<\/s> damages <\/i>from those bad things, and want to be able to take them as proven in court.<\/p>\n

Which explains why M$ sought to have 395 of Jackson’s 412 findings of fact summarily thrown out or reopened or otherwise debated into the ground. And why they’re sorely disappointed that a federal judge has said, nope. And why M$ instead plans to appeal them individually (and, doubtless, indefinitely) …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Micro$oft, having been hit with a slap on the wrist in the DoJ battle, is not out of the woods yet. 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