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Re: the Bill is overdue



These 'Facts' were well known to the DOJ and the States who filed the
class action suit.

Once the current president was selected by the Supreme Court, the DOJ
seemed to pretty much loose interest.

Hey, the presidents have been appointing Supreme Court
justices for centuries.
Wasn't it about time for the court to return the favor?

At 12:56 AM -0400 on 5/23/02, John S. Denker wrote
Rick Tarara wrote:

Enough with the g** d*** Microsoft bashing. Nobody ever got a virus by
reading their email--only by foolishly opening an attachment that came from
somebody they didn't know.

Sorry, the facts are otherwise.

http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=PE_NIMDA.A

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-020.asp?frame=true

And it has NOT been Microsoft that obsoletes old software between versions
of their OS

Horsefeathers.

However, it
seems ironic that people do attack M$ for producing the same kind of
integrated OS and software system (with some hardware integration by
cooperating [or conspiring] with Intel) that everyone initially praised
Apple for doing.

Integration is the least of the issues.
The central issue is unlawful exploitation of monopoly power.

Cursing and throwing around a lot of non-facts will not prevent
the rest of us from discussing the facts.

Facts are available at:
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ms_index.htm
especially:
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm


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