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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