{"id":3523,"date":"2002-11-04T06:44:22","date_gmt":"2002-11-04T11:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2002-11-04T06:44:22","modified_gmt":"2002-11-04T11:44:22","slug":"obligatory_unha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/04\/obligatory_unha.html","title":{"rendered":"Obligatory unhappy face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sorely disappointed in the U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly&#8217;s decision on Friday to give Micro$oft a DoJ-blessed <a title=\"Microsoft ruling may blunt other cases - Tech News - CNET.com\" href=\"http:\/\/msnbc-cnet.com.com\/2100-1001-964366.html?type=pt&#038;part=msnbc&#038;tag=alert&#038;form=feed&#038;subj=cnetnews\">slap on the wrist<\/a>.  I fear this case will have a profound negative influence on other anti-trust cases in the future, both in terms of M$ getting away with everything short of murder, and companies learning that if they just hold out, they&#8217;ll eventually get an Administration in Washington that doesn&#8217;t want to press on with such a suit.<\/p>\n<p>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$.  It won&#8217;t necessarily affect how things go here, but &#8212; well, if there&#8217;s one hegemony the world should be afraid of, it&#8217;s not located in Washington, DC, it&#8217;s located in Washington, Redmond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sorely disappointed in the U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly&#8217;s decision on Friday to give Micro$oft a DoJ-blessed slap on the wrist. 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