[Am-info] Re: Netscape v. MS

[Eric Bennett]

"T.Guilbert" wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 2002 January 24 (Thursday), timestamp 11:15 AM,
>    on the topic [Am-info] Re: Netscape v. MS,
>    sturde@az.com wrote:
> 
> "|>Netscape is reviving government claims, rejected last year by the U.S.
> "|>Court of Appeals, that Microsoft illegally tied its browser to the
> "|>operating system and tried to monopolize the browser market.
> 
> IIRC, the Court of Appeals did not reject the tying argument as a
> matter of law; the DoJ decided, however, not to correct the defects in
> the tying count that Judge Jackson identified in his opinion, so the
> matter was not before the court on appeal.  IOW, the matter is not res
> judicata.

The tying issue was before the appeals court, and they remanded it back to
district court for further consideration, but the DOJ agreed to drop the
issue completely in order to get MS to agree to a settlement.

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Eric Bennett ( ericb@pobox.com ; http://www.pobox.com/~ericb )

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