Re: Hatch wants Gates back

["Norm" <normanmo@clark.net>]

On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:38:46 -0400 (EDT), Mitch Stone wrote:

>A consent decree looks a lot like a plea bargain to me. Negotiating a 
>plea bargain with a prosecutor who rarely brings charges anyway has got 
>to imply a pretty fine deal for the offender. Let's face facts: very few 
>companies have anything to fear from the DoJ's antitrust division -- 
>they'd been packing a styrofoam bat for years away, and the flabby terms 
>of the consent decree made them look even more conciliatory. I think this 
>is what Judge Sporkin was saying in 1995 -- what's the point of providing 
>Microsoft with virtual immunity from further prosecution? The DoJ had 
>them beat dead to rights on the CPU tax issue but was afraid to throw the 
>book at them.


     Yep, if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck...etc.


--
 ...Cheers,

 ...Norm

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