[H-GEN] Microsoft lost - what now ?

[Chris Ryan]

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Michael Anthon wrote:
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> > The United States District Court for the District of Columbia
> > said all that - anyone willing to guess what will happen next?
> 
> Sure, I'll take a stab at it [1].  Micro$oft will spend the next 15 years
> appealing this decision, in the meantime, it will be business as usual...
> 
> Cheers
> Michael Anthon
> 
> [1] All my knowledge of US law come from TV shows [2] like "Law & Order"
> etc.... so I could be completely wrong
> [2] I have never and WILL never purposely watch "Judge Judy" or "Judge Joe
> BrownOrWhateverTheHellHisNameIs"

Wait a minute.  You've got it wrong.  It's not 15 years.  These shows
always show the cases wrapped up in a few days or weeks [1] at most.

So, given that our trusted knowledge source is from these TV shows, 
we should have events sorted out soon, but there's got to be a dramatic
twist or two with appropriate background music.

TV doesn't lie, does it?

A little more seriously: as you say, MS will appeal and drag things
out for as long as they can.  When the writing is finally on the wall,
I suspect Billy-boy will do 'something' to the company himself that
will fix the problems perceived by the government.  I think it will
be important to him that he initiates the fix, not the government or
courts.

[1] Or max 1 hour 'real-time' given decent compression of events.

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