There's a lot of writing on the MSFT ruling today, and most of it seems to glean the same thing I did: MSFT is still in very, very, hot water. One thing that I didn't think of is that this opens the company up to massive private lawsuits that can keep it in court for more than a decade. MSFT has to appeal this ruling in order to try and save itself, but with two opinions in courts below that are so firmly worded and based upon the record, it would be remarkable if the Supreme Court overturned the whole thing. Having lost nearly all interest in Slate recently, I have yet to pull that up and see if they have anything. I wonder if Kinsley will write some pointless editorial the way he did when the movie "Anti-trust" came out. I did enjoy reading the comments from a panel that Salon put together. The court has set a high standard [that the new judge find MSFT would have lost its monopoly position in the OS market had it not acted illegally] for the break-up as a remedy, but it's not too far out of the realm of possibility. The opinion is an interesting read both legally and economically.
- posted by levinson @ 6/29/2001 07:59:00 AM