RE: Microsoft's punishment (was: Netscape 6 -- slightly off the wall)

Please don't throw me in the briar patch...

Sheila S. Ruth
sruth(at)abs.net
It's all about family: http://www.mycinnamontoast.com/



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of Mike Kear
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 3:35 PM
> To: lmlweb(at)lmlweb.com; hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> Subject: Microsoft's punishment (was: Netscape 6 -- slightly off the
> wall)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >For what it's worth, about the Microsoft trial, from the Wired News
> >Daily....
> >
> >Will MS Lose Browser Rights? (Politics 9:00 a.m. PDT)
> >  
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35557,00.html?tf=wn20000410
> >  One of the penalties Microsoft may have to pay as a result 
> of losing
> >its antitrust case is giving up its rights to Internet Explorer.
> >
> >
> This article says in part:
> The Journal, citing people close to the case, said the government is 
> considering a proposal that would force Microsoft to grant 
> royalty-free 
> licenses to Internet Explorer, opening the programming code 
> to customers and 
> computer makers.
> [end quote]
> 
> Well, how clever is that?   Considering the stated reason for 
> starting the 
> case in the first place was Microsoft's anti-competitive 
> stance against 
> companies like Netscape,  can Netscape sue the US Government 
> for an even 
> MORE anti-competitive stance?
> 
> If Microsoft's crime against Netscape and the capitalist 
> system was giving 
> away the browser with the OS, how can the US Government countenance 
> demanding Microsoft continue to give the browser away, only 
> now with other 
> programs too?
> 
> The guys who started Netscape off, and sold out at the right 
> time to AOL 
> must be deleriously happy right now!
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike Kear
> AFP Web Development
> Windsor, NSW, Australia
> 
> 
> 
> 
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