Comments on: U.S. defends Microsoft remedy at international meet
Justice Department's top antitrust official says the remedy in Microsoft's U.S. antitrust case is successful and urges U.S. and EU officials to be cautious in fighting monopoly behavior.
What is he going to say?
"Yeah, we never really could figure out what all the technology
talk was about so we just took care of some of the things we
kinda sorta understood.
And besides, Bill Gates is giving away a lot of money and our
office runs on Microsoft because they cut us a really good deal
and I hear they're always looking for lawyers, so...."
"Consider that markets change in ways that could not be predicted. Many formerly big powerful firms are struggling," To divide (cut in two halves) the "infant" (Microsoft) or allow the infant (Microsoft) to Live Long And Prosper.
"When Sugar Was King"
ETHANOL ANYONE!
"Sugar protocol scrapped by EU
-in midst of talks"
http://www.stabroeknews.com/index.pl/article_general_news?id=56529981
Just Knew That That "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation" Would Make Plenty Of Sense To Those Poor ACP Countries!
Go USA, Go Microsoft, Go ACP Countries!
There are plenty of opportunities for Chinese investors in Africa, from low cost housing to mineral exploitation and agricultural development. The image of Africa as a continent torn apart by wars, plagued by diseases and its people living in abject poverty is being gradually replaced by a more realistic image of a safe and attractive place for investment with innumerable business opportunities.
There are now daily flights from Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Hong Kong to major cities in Africa. Is it the beginning of a new era and a model of success story of South-South co-operation? We are tempted to answer in the affirmative."
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-01/13/content_511909.htm
Remember folks - The Hands That Rocks The Cradle Rules The Grave.
Pull Out From "Europe" And Go To Africa (before it is too late) Like The Chinese Are Doing Microsoft!
charged with ensuring *compliance* - is actually *defending* a
convicted monopolist (convicted *by* the DoJ and multiple
other authorities around the world)?
Conservative politics in the US are beneath contempt to most
external observers. And let?s make no mistake about this,
politics is what this is, not law. Lest we forget, this is the same
DoJ whose politically appointed head resigned recently in
disgrace after pressure from both sides of Congress for being
partisan and forgetting about the separation of powers.
Some Microsoft-sympathetic US media outlets have been
publishing stories about the great divide between the EU and
US jurisprudence in relation to market regulation. But they seem
to forget two major points:
Firstly the DoJ won their case against Microsoft convincingly,
even overwhelmingly. Microsoft had even resorted to
contemptuous tricks and tactics that outraged the various
judges on more than one occasion, including: offering
manifestly fake video evidence; a variety of damning e-mail
evidence which contradicted claims made under oath; and
computer experts were - with minimal effort - able to prove
some of their other claims (e.g.: Internet Explorer was
inseparable from the OS) patently false, etc..
Secondly, after having even convinced the judge in the first
round that a break-up of Microsoft was the only viable remedy,
the DoJ was poised to secure an emphatic alternative penalty
against Microsoft in the court of appeals, when there was a
change of government in the US. George W. Bush came to
power, and there was a sudden - and otherwise inexplicably
diametric ? change of tack by the DoJ, coinciding with the
nomination of a new political appointee by the White House.
Consequently, a large number of non-political DoJ staff
resigned in protest.
As such, there may not be such a big difference between the
substantive jurisprudence of the two camps across the Atlantic;
instead there may only be a discrepancy between the politics of
the White House and the jurisprudence of the EU. But this is not
surprising in the least; given the mounting evidence from
WMDs, through voting irregularities - electronic and otherwise
- to warrantless wiretapping, it seems that the law / truth and
the White House don?t always mix. Moreover, with the current
state of affairs, i.e.: with the DoJ having been relegated to
mouthpiece of the White House, there may be little
jurisprudence left in the US camp at all; that is the only
conclusion I can draw when the DoJ is defending a monopolist
it convicted.
That's about all there is to it, you would think.
Unless, the dispute between the U.S. & the E.U. is
political as you suggest.
Maybe it's more to do with Microsoft being an American Corporation, after all, both parties have found Microsoft guilty of basically the same thing.
If that is the case, instead of accepting the E.U.'s right to their findings, the D.o.J. then proceeds to question their ruling, as an exercise in flag waving, what else could it be?
I remain open to other explanations, but suspect your conclusion is pretty close to the mark.
Kind Regards.
- stop this EU vs US nonsense
- by zolyfarkas September 30, 2007 11:43 AM PDT
- We are living in a global environment, this has nothing to do with US vs EU contest.
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- Why "stop this EU vs US nonsense" without....
- by Commander_Spock September 30, 2007 1:43 PM PDT
- ... getting to the "root" of the whole matter? Further, in that you have stated inter alia; "The petitioners against Microsoft in this case with the EU are IBM, Real, Nokia, Oracle, Redhat and others". Well, in the first instance one should ask - why have the companies - "IBM, Real, Nokia, Oracle, Redhat and others" chosen to wash their "dirty linen" (a matter, which from all appearances has been settled at home in the USA) in international waters. So say, what has happened to all of the OS/2 Developers and OEMs around the world - have they all been killed off by the United States of America based Microsoft Corporation or what. No; but wait; "Do we need to care about OOXML?" writes "Kim Haverblad":
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- The sound of the drums
- by Troll Hard September 30, 2007 2:24 PM PDT
- "The petitioners against Microsoft in this case with the EU are IBM, Real, Nokia, Oracle, Redhat and others"
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- THE BRITISH GUIANA "BASE" COMMAND SCENARIO!
- by Commander_Spock September 30, 2007 5:55 PM PDT
- "The last time a guy thought that his nation is superior to the rest of the world created quite a mess!!!" The thing is, there was that possibility of "the guy" succeeding to a certain extent if he had listened to his Field Commanders not to attack in Russia during the winter.
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(27 Comments)STOP THINKING LIKE IN THE 19th CENTURY
Who petitioned this case against Microsoft?
"The petitioners against Microsoft in this case with the EU are IBM, Real, Nokia, Oracle, Redhat and others"
As you can see they are MS competitors and quite ironically most of them are US based companies.
please stop nationalistic arrogance! The last time a guy thought that his nation is superior to the rest of the world created quite a mess!!!
http://www.ecomstation.com/news.phtml?action=fullnews&id=2408
Since the world now knows that the Microsoft Corporation has lost the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) vote a few weeks ago; why even bother with this company's non-standardised products when others are available. If all the OS/2 Developers and OEMs around have not died and United States of America based Microsoft Corporation do employ the best "brains" that could be found around the world then something else is wrong; and, that guess is yours to make.
Note "Call for speakers and topics" and request for Presenter on "XML (processing) For OS/2.
http://www.warpstock.org/
Maybe, the Microsoft Corporation can provide a few speakers at Warpstock 2007 in their quest for vindication!
Don't forget Sun, AOL, Apple, and Netscape. Although Netscape was bought out by AOL, and Apple later settled with Microsoft and withdrew its objections.
Can you hear it? The sound of the drums. The drums of the army rallying against Microsoft? The people who want to take away the Windows, MS-Office, Media Player, and Internet Explorer standards so they can screw the 80% marketshare and force them to use their own standards instead. They want to make things like the 1980's when there was several if not dozens of standards and programs written for one OS could not run on any other OS. They want to bring about chaos, and force people into downloading software they create for Windows in order to charge them for it, instead of letting them use the Microsoft versions that came with their new PC for free.
Gone will be the days when you can surf the web and watch videos with the software that came on your PC.
You'll be forced to buy a web browser from AOL/Netscape for $35, you'll be forced to buy Real Player or Apple Quicktime for $35, you'll be forced to buy IBM/Lotus Smartsuite for $250 just to use that new ODF format that the ISO has been bribed to force down your throat. But wait, there is more. Because once they take the standards away from Microsoft that Microsoft gives away for free, you're going to pay a whole lot more for your software. Then the free-ride is over.
Now, remember what was the strategy the Russians used - they pulled back their forces from the front lines and if the United States of America based Microsoft Corporation is clever enough then they will secure the Protocols in the "underground bunkers" at (read the subject line) relocate their European Operations to "Little India" where these "underground bunkers" are located (see the subject line). Now, who do you have backing you; the USA, and Market Share of the British Commonwealth (with the inclusion of Mother India and Father Africa); and; this is why "The last time a guy (who) thought that his nation is superior to the rest of the world (and who) created quite a mess" was eventually prevented from doing so. More "economic power" to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Pet Food Manufacturing Companies, the BOEING Aircraft Company, the Anti-Virus Software Companies (Symantec...) GO MICROSOFT GO!