I thought that Slate would probably serve up some self-serving garbage about the ruling of the Court of Appeals, but this is truly pathetic. "Microsoft today won the skirmish, the battle, and--in light of the leanings of a Bush/Ashcroft Justice Department--probably the war, in its fight against the pesky antitrust suit that's been nipping at its heels." Dahlia Lithwick must be "getting a lot of free pizza and beer tonight" from her overlords at MSFT for this article, because she certainly didn't read the same opinion I did. Nowhere does she even mention that the court found MSFT to be a monopoly and had acted illegally and "deceptively". The disclosure parenthetical is a cute addition but is totally unnecessary since only someone who works for MSFT could possibly write this evaluation of the opinion. As Ross Perot said, now this is just sad.
- posted by levinson @ 6/29/2001 09:18:00 AM