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an about face for the official policy at the NYTimes. prior to the decision, the NYT was acting almost like an apologist for M$; now they are placing the onus on M$: "It is in the public interest that Microsoft be required to show that its practices are not anticompetitive."
should make life interesting; now that M$' momentum has been nicked, everybody will join in the great Muslim tradition of stoning Bill Gate$ to death. Gate$ predicted a year or so ago that M$ would suffer a near-death experience --well, BadBillyG, is the handwriting on your wall? you can fool all the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all the time, you can not fool all the people all the time. who said that? http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/editorial/ December 15, 1997 NYTimes Editorial / editorial policy statement Saying No to Microsoft
NYTimes' policy change since the decision:
A preliminary injunction ... ... is a smart step that preserves the competitive status quo while the court reviews the antitrust suit brought by the Justice Department in October. The injunction is needed, Judge Jackson pointedly wrote, because the probability that Microsoft will, through its licensing practices, reinforce its operating system monopoly and acquire yet another monopoly in the Internet browser market "is simply too great to tolerate indefinitely until the issue is finally resolved." ... ...Judge Jackson said Microsoft's idea of what is "integrated" would appear to render the consent decree provision meaningless. If Internet Explorer can be turned into a Windows component under the decree, so might other Microsoft products like Word and Excel.
the NYTimes real reversal of statement since the decision:
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