Court Approves Microsoft Deal With U.S(denies MASS re inadequate sanction

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=716&e=3&u=/ap/20040630/ap_on_bi_ge/microsoft_antitrust

Court Approves Microsoft Deal With U.S.
By TED BRIDIS, AP Technology Writer

WASHINGTON - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday approved the landmark antitrust settlement Microsoft Corp. negotiated with the Justice Department (news - web sites), setting aside objections by Massachusetts that sanctions in the agreement were inadequate against the world's largest software company.

In a significant victory for Microsoft and the Justice Department, the appeals court ruled that the settlement was in the public's interest. <snip>

The central question for the appeals court involved how much deference judges should show toward the settlement negotiated by the Bush administration and Microsoft lawyers. That agreement, approved in November 2002 by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, was aimed at giving consumers more choices by, among other things, helping rivals develop competing software on computers running Windows. The provisions expire in 2007.

The trial judge and Justice Department lawyers have acknowledged that one of the disputed settlement's most important provisions — which compels Microsoft to license some of its technology to its rivals — is not working.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. What a surprise... NOT!

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2. Why I hate Microsoft

Why I hate Microsoft
"A personal, lengthy, but highly articulate outburst"
http://www.euronet.nl/users/frankvw/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html

[papau]

3. Excellent site - worth a few weeks review!

thanks for posting!

:-)

I liked his "links"

Microsoft crash gallery http://www.scorpioncity.com/mscrash.shtml screenshots that illustrate the many ways in which MS products are prone to crash.

Windows NT and VMS: the rest of the story Is NT really New Technology? "Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)?" http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/4494/4494.html

http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html quantitative data that, in many cases, using open source software / free software is a reasonable or even superior approach to using their proprietary competition according to various measures.

Jerry Pournelle http://www.jerrypournelle.com/ http://www.euronet.nl/users/frankvw/rants/microsoft/Pournelle.txt is a transcript of the discussion that followed.

The Netcraft uptime top-50 http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html lists webservers by average uptime.Windows NT/2000 and/or IIS aren't on the list!

Georgi Guninski http://www.guninski.com/ Bulgarian security consultant,holds the unofficial record for discovering MS security leaks.

Windows NT vs. CP/M http://www.oualline.com/col/cpm.html



A new NT 4.0 logo
What users thought of Bill Gates
http://www.kmfms.com/
Microslaves
Windows 2000 buglist
Microsoft Linux - at last! http://mslinux.org/
Microsoft acquires de facto monopolies in education Catch 'em while they're young... http://www.vcnet.com/bms/features/college.shtml
MSBC http://www.msboycott.com/ The Microsoft Boycott Campaign, including the Superlist of anti-MS websites
This The is probably the best way to install Windows
Computer rage Tales of woe from the field http://www.comprage.com/
oRemarks by Steve Ballmer. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/2002/10-09gartnerexpo.asp