[Am-info] remedies, enforcement, etc.

[Lewis A. Mettler]

Actually, since Microsoft Corporation has already claimed in a public
lie that IE is a non revenue product, they should get their wish and
give it up "without revenue" just like they have demanded.  If they did
not lie, they should not complain.  They would even be relieved of that
enormous R&D obligation on an on-going basis.

That or admit they have been defrauding all consumers by lying about the
price of IE.

Hans Reiser wrote:
> 
> Eric Lee Green wrote:
> 
> >
> > Finally, for those who questioned why I mentioned licensing Microsoft's code
> > rather than outright selling or giving it away -- we have a thing called a
> > "Constitution" in this country that prohibits simply taking somebody's property
> > without compensation.
> 
> Unless they break the law.  Read section 6 of sherman about forfeiture of goods
> owned pursuant to a conspiracy to restrain trade.  They owe us compensation, and
> forfeiture of everything they made to the United States only begins to repair the
> harm....
> 
> > We also have a little thing called "copyright law" that
> > says that if you own a copyrighted piece of software, nobody's allowed to copy
> > it or make derivative works based on it, and if people do make derivative works
> > based on your work, those derivative works are your property too -- unless
> > other contractural (licensing) agreements have been made to say otherwise.
> 
> Read Paramount Pictures vs. US and Loew's vs. US.
> 
> Leveraging of some software components into a monopoly on other software
> components should be considered illegal.
> 
> --
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>  (http://devlinux.org/namesys).  If you sell an OS or
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-- 
Lewis A. Mettler, Esq.(Attorney and Software Developer)
lmettler@LAMLaw.com
http://www.lamlaw.com/ (detailed review of the Microsoft antitrust
trial)