Remember back to June 2001 when the Appeals Court in the Microsoft case reversed and remanded Judge Jackson’s proposed penalties against Microsoft? At that time, people who should have known better (Dan Gillmor comes to mind) went around grasping at straws that this was somehow a loss for Microsoft. Of course, here the more sensible…
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Dave Winer’s been going on and on about journalistic ethics, but how about getting some ethics of his own? Winer has a habit of talking about things that he doesn’t understand, but why was he dissing a site that he apparently didn’t even read? In this post he disses the so-called warbloggers, apparently jealous of…
Bill Gates is, of course, testifying in person during this round of the penalty phase of the Microsoft antitrust trial. He probably should have stayed home. According to the Associated Press, Gates actually testified today that the penalties proposed by the states could limit Microsoft’s ability to fix security holes in its Windows. Gates was…
Reason magazine gets to the bottom of AOL’s recently announced antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. The magazine’s weekly e-mail newsletter neatly sums up the innovative legal theory behind AOL’s lawsuit, AOL Time Warner filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft claiming that Netscape, which AOL bought in 1999 for $10 billion, was wrecked by Microsoft back in…
In 1997, ABC “reporter” Cokie Roberts blasted the Internet in a column she wrote with her husband, Steve. Among other things they complained about was that (surprise) the Internet didn’t allow for any mediation of views by responsible folks. To us it [unmediated web communication] sounds like no more deliberation, no more consideration of an…
Despite some of the spin from some quarters that Microsoft’s appeals court victory was really a loss, New Mexico saw the writing on the wall and withdrew from the states’ antitrust lawsuit against the software company. Microsoft’s minor concessions the other day apparently prompted the attorney general there to rethink the wisdom of sending more…