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All I can say is wow.....
Five years later into this, and did anything really happen?

Reguardless of your view of Microsoft, there must have been a better way to resolve this.

Microsoft still dominates the PC desktop, and if your goal was to end that domination, this wasn't the trick.

I would have really liked to have seem somebody go out and try to come out with a new desktop OS or something, but I don't think I ever saw the effort.

Why didn't Linux companies go out and use this opportunity to get retail Linux boxes in stores like Best Buy or Circuit City? Was Microsoft stopping them?

In the end, if Microsoft is a monopoly, and there are few alternatives (which in itself is debatable), then some of it has to do with people not even trying to compete.

Sure we've all heard the stories about how Microsoft eat children for breakfast, thus scaring off or destrying competitors, but in the end, someone has to actually DO something besides a court order being handed down.
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I have no opinion on the merits of this case, but...  Jose Jimenez | 11/04/03
In the Bush/Ashcroft Justice department....  mlindl | 11/04/03
sigh  stephen732@... | 11/04/03
Kool-aid  samp_z | 11/05/03
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Mass. AG about to be spanked.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/04/03
Wrong tree, but the Axe keeps chopping.  John Le'Brecage | 11/04/03
Wild guess.  Fred Fredrickson | 11/04/03
Yo Bit, go grind your axe elsewhere. . . This is a shill-free zone. . .  Plain Logic | 11/04/03
No Facts to Grind  Nullifidian | 11/05/03
Let's watch and see who is right.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/05/03
M$ bribes again!  screaming silence | 11/04/03
how about...  pschroeder@... | 11/04/03
I prefer...  John Le'Brecage | 11/04/03
do you  Ardian Daka | 11/05/03
screaming ignorance NT  vdraken | 11/04/03
Proof Please?  rapson | 11/04/03
Proof ?  NT Admin | 11/05/03
Does only one side need proof?  rapson | 11/05/03
All I can say is wow.....  Heatlesssun | 11/04/03
That's the point of the appeal  Robert Crocker | 11/04/03
You understand the problem - here's my remedy.  Fred Fredrickson | 11/04/03
Somebody is doing something about competition...  mlindl | 11/04/03
Linux needs its own OEMs  Ardian Daka | 11/05/03
You are blind if you can't see!  DarbyOhara | 11/04/03
Yes its corrupt.  vdraken | 11/04/03
Proof please?  John Le'Brecage | 11/04/03
I thought proof wasn't required  rapson | 11/04/03
you require no proof, you believe everything m$ ever said  stephen732@... | 11/04/03
Proof  richhayes | 11/10/03
Proof?  Ardian Daka | 11/05/03
Re: Yes its corrupt  Martin Marvinski | 11/04/03
Check your facts, vdraken  mlindl | 11/04/03
Wrong date  Ardian Daka | 11/05/03
Sour Grapes is not PROOF. Try again.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/05/03
I think judges right  lmaxwell | 11/04/03
Maybe but there is a flaw in your logic....  mlindl | 11/04/03
Appeals to the Appeals to appeal the appeals  FilledOut | 11/05/03
The system is broken  interlocutor | 11/05/03
Well for you anyhow..  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/05/03

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