(OT?) Micro/DOJ Settlement

[Marvin Bellamy]

Sounds to me like they're inching towards the middle ground.  This 
entire process is pure bullshit.  They lost the case, why is the JD 
debating with them on what a fair punishment is?  If I'm convicted of 
murder, does my attorney get to banter with the judge on a fair 
sentence?  The monopoly law that someone posted here a while back made 
it clear that you punish don't regulate.  All of these terms will 
require some intensive monitoring and with the lack of effort we've seen 
from the G-men, they won't put up much of a fight after the settlement's 
done.

Brian Densmore wrote:

>M$ has altered the settlement, pray they do not alter it further.
>http://money.cnn.com/2002/02/28/technology/microsoft/
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>You think maybe they knew they got caught yet one more time
>and perhaps might not have gotten away with it?
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>Brian
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> "Three OS's from corporate-kings in their towers of glass, 
>Seven from valley-lords where orchards used to grow, 
>Nine from dotcoms doomed to die, 
>one from the dark lord Gates on his dark throne 
>In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie. 
>one OS to rule them all, one OS to find them, 
>one OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, 
>In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie."    john thrum
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