Re: No Judicial 'Pie-In-Face' for Bill?

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

charles mueller wrote:
> 
>         The morning papers report that (1) Microsoft has moved its internal
> browser people into the same in-house cubicle with its Windows
> operating-system crew and (2) Netscape is trying to sell out to IBM, Sun,
> Oracle, or the like.  New York Times, 2/6/98, C3, and Miami Herald, 2/6/98,
> C1.
> 
>         The first presumably reflects Microsoft's confidence that it's going
> to get a clean bill of health from the U.S. appeals court in Washington in
> April, one that will legalize its 'tying' ('integration') of its
> browser--and all other applications--to its OS. This 2d news
> item--Netscape's preparations to throw in the towel--suggests that it agrees
> with that Microsoft conclusion, i.e., that the appellate court is going to
> give Bill Gates everything he wants, a judicial blessing of his software
> monopoly across the board.


    I don't think Netscape's decision has much to do with the appellate
court.  I think it has more to do with the fact that the current case is
only one of a dozen or more ways that MS is seeking to eliminate NN, and
it doesn't see DOJ addressing the other 11.   

    Jamie


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