[Am-info] Tougher Terms for Microsoft Were Rejected

[Erick Andrews]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:34:24 -0800, Mitch Stone wrote:

>Tougher Terms for Microsoft Were Rejected
>
>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000091487nov16.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines
>%2Dbusiness
>
>The Bush administration said in a court filing that it rejected tougher 
>settlement terms in the Microsoft antitrust case because it feared they 
>would not be effective, might hurt the computer market or take too long 
>to implement.
>
>[...]
>
> Mitch Stone  
> mitch@accidentalexpert.com
>

They have as much brains as a box of rocks.

And to quote the article...

'...the Justice Department decided instead that its proposed consent decree
would provide the "most effective and certain relief in the most timely
manner."  '

Relief?  How the heck do *they* spell relief??  Timely?  In who's lifetime??

Brazen hubris.

-- 
Erick Andrews