While MS deserves to get called on some of its business practices, I
strongly doubt that MS is going to lose this one in the appeals court.

The judge in this case has demonstrated a strong anti-MS bias in every
ruling prior to the anti-trust case and should have disqualified himself in
the beginning. His Finding of Fact is another example of this and will be
recognized as such by an impartial court.

This will probably result in MS getting off without any real changes in its
businees practices. Although, it is true that just the existance of the
trial resulted many changes in the industry that would not have happened
otherwise. So maybe it was not a total waste of time and money.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeanne Pitts [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 12:40 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: U.S. Judge Finds Microsoft Holds Monopoly Power
>
>
> Nonsense.  If Mr. Gates had merely marketed his product at
> the best of his
> companies ability to do so without sabotaging every other
> vendor with a
> similar product, this would not be happening.  The point is
> that Mr. Gates
> engages in unfair business practices and should be made to
> pay for that.
> And with his ability to pay, I doubt that this will hurt him
> very much.
>