[Am-info] Down the River

[Mike Stephen]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 08:08:21 -0800, Mitch Stone wrote:

>Does anyone who thought this wasn't going happen care to comment?
>
>[Well, so much for that. Anyone want to speculate on how different this 
>deal is from what Microsoft has been offering in settlement talks since 
>early 1998? If the differences are minimal and if the judge accepts this 
>deal, then just what did this lawsuit accomplish, beyond enriching lawyers, 
>eating up tens of millions of tax dollars, and launching a flotilla of 
>anklebiting private antitrust suits? --Declan]


What does it prove?  It shows that if you squirm, protest, pay off reporters,
 and professors, and pay off grass roots letter writing, and pay off politicians, 
and lots of other "industry brown nosers", you too can pull off an OJ Simpson 
and get away with screwing over a whole industry the way Microsoft did.

I only hope that there is enough teeth in any agreement that is done.  

Perhaps there will be some states that will persue this farther, or perhaps
 Europe can do what America is unable/unwilling to do.  It does however,
confirm my opinion about American justice.  It is the finest justice money can buy.

>From the Desk of Mike Stephen




>From the Desk of Mike Stephen