[Am-info] Gateway Official Hits Microsoft Licensing In Testimony

[Eric Bennett]

Mitch Stone wrote:

> Given that the antitrust trial was essentially about Microsoft violating
> the 1995 Consent Decree, and given that such damning testimony was not
> available in the original trial, it seems to me that what the Gateway exec
> is saying now could potentially form the basis for a new antitrust action.
>   I don't claim to understand the legal nuances here, but it seems clearer
> now then it ever has before that Microsoft is conducting its relations
> with the OEMs in precise contradiction to the terms of the decree.


http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f0000/0047.htm

"This Final Judgment shall expire on the seventy eighth month after its
entry."

I don't recall exactly what date the decree started, but by my count it
either expired very recently or it's about to expire... unless it is
somehow renewed, but I haven't heard anything about such a possibility.

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