[Am-info] Legal monopoly?

[John Poltorak]

Once the Anti-trust trial is done and dusted, does Microsoft suddenly 
become a legal monopoly?

It has been described as an illegal monopoly, not sure if this was stated 
in the Findings of Fact, but if it was an illegal monopoly, and the courts 
do nothing about stopping the monopoly, which looks fairly certain, then 
it must subsequently be deemed to be a legal monopoly. In effect this 
means it would  escape any future prosecution under the Anti-trust laws,  
because Bill Gates would argue that the courts had legitimised Microsoft's  
status.

This is truly scary, as it gives Microsoft the right to leverage all their 
existing monopolies to establish themselves in new markets and 
systematically take them over as well.


-- 
John