[Am-info] STATES SEEK MICROSOFT WINDOWS SOURCE CODE

[Joe Moore]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:40:32PM -0500, Erick Andrews wrote:
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> >http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=640472
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> This is interesting.  The article reports:
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> "This is the equivalent of demanding of Coke that they turn
> over the formula," said Andrew Gavil, a professor of antitrust
> law at Howard University.

It is the equivalent of demanding of Coke that they allow expert witnesses
to view the formula, and then testify that it can be manufactured without
cocaine.

This is a much closer analogy to what has been ordered.

--Joe
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