[H-GEN] Microsoft lost - what now ?

[Luke Grant]

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Correct me if i am wrong.....but i was under the impression that this last
case was the apeal to the supreme court under surveilance from the
senate. That would make this decision final......

I could be mistaken though.

Luke Grant




On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Chris Ryan wrote:

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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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