On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Kurt Buff<[email protected]> wrote:
> I responded to Mr. Scott's little memento - "Microsoft got (and gets)
> in trouble for using its monopoly powers in ways which violate
> anti-trust laws..."
>
> This is political opinion in and of itself ...

  Regarding your own rant: You're advocating how you think the law
*should* be written.  I was reporting on how the law is written and
applied -- and under the common law system the US uses, case law *is*
law.  You may not agree with the law, you may think it's wholly wrong
and corrupt, but that doesn't mean you, personally and individually,
have the power to overturn it.

  A US court deemed Microsoft to be monopoly, and to have used that
monopoly power to give their web browser uncompetitive advantage.  See
US v. MSFT, Findings of Fact,
<http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm>.

  Again: You may not agree.   I really don't care, and for purposes of
answering the question I was responding to, what you think doesn't
matter.  Feel free to continue to rant, but Kurt Buff's opinions do
not decide law, no matter how much you think they should.

  That's all I'm going to say on the subject.

-- Ben

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