[Am-info] query about MS "Innovations"

[John Poltorak]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 04:09:04PM -0500, Paul Rickard wrote:
> ========== On 2002.03.31 04:00 PM, Mitch Stone typed: ============
> 
> >Quite right, you've been notably silent on this matter, as I suppose well 
> >you should be, since the Bush administration's approach to antitrust law 
> >enforcement is indefensible at best to people who care about such things, 
> >and we can remember when you claimed it would turn out otherwise. Never 
> >mind -- we've been though this all before, including the "Al Gore claimed 
> >to invent the internet" nonsense, and I surely don't expect more edifying 
> >results this time. If you ask me, the better part of valor would have been 
> >not to have made partisan remarks again -- they only invite questions you 
> >clearly prefer not to answer.
> 
>    Ok, I'll say it. I am disappointed in the Bush administration's 
> handling of the Microsoft case. Ideally they would have continued it with 
> the same force as before, or more, but that's not what happened. The case 
> wasn't well built to begin with, since the problem in question was the 
> bundling of a Web browser with an outdated operating system better than 
> five years ago now, but it could have been fixed. I don't know why it 
> wasn't fixed. But I believe the problem is a lack of knowledge or the 
> appointment of people with a lack of knowledge instead of a massive 
> conspiracy theory like some here have hinted about.

The abandonment of the the case is simply pay-back time for Microsoft's
investment in the last election.

They made sure that the appeals process lasted as long as it took to get a 
new administration in, and you knew the day that Dubya got it that 
Microsoft was going to be let off the hook.

It was as obvious as night following day.


-- 
John