Who is this jerk - some kind of Microsoft paid flunky? On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Matthew Gaylor wrote: > From: "Mises Institute News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Reaction to Microsoft Ruling > Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 09:47:56 -0500 > > Dominick T. Armentano, Mises Institute adjunct scholar and author of > "Antitrust: The Case for Repeal," has the following reaction to the > Microsoft ruling: > > "The ruling by Judge Jackson is obscene but not unexpected. Microsoft has > been losing this case almost from day one. (Why the markets reacted so > sharply to an all but forgone outcome requires an explanation.) Their > defense at trial was weak and unconvincing; yet given the nature of > antitrust law, no rational defense was really possible. > > "What disturbs me most is that the bulk of the anti-antitrust arguments and > evidence developed over the last 30 years was, for the most part, ignored. > Indeed, reading Judge Jackson's decision is like being in an antitrust time > warp. Has anyone but me noticed the many references to Areeda and Turner in > the decison? Amazing nostalgia. > > "Yet it illustrates the absolute power of statist ideas that develop in the > establishment academy. Microsoft's decision to fight on may make little > business sense but I welcome it. If any firm is financially and > temperamentally suited to challenge this antitrust nonsense, it's Microsoft. > They did extremely well on appeal in 1998 on similar (but more narrow) > issues. Unfortunately this time there is a huge so-called 'finding of fact' > staring them (and any appellate court) in the face. That presumption will > be very difficult to overcome." > > ------------- > > For more on the Microsoft Ruling, see the headline today on > http://www.mises.org/ > > ************************************************************************** > Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues > Send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words subscribe FA > on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per month) > Matthew Gaylor,1933 E. Dublin-Granville Rd., PMB 176, Columbus, OH 43229 > Archived at http://www.egroups.com/list/fa/ > ************************************************************************** >
