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Microsoft Cites Precedent February 09, 2001
Microsoft Corp.'s lawyers sent a letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals pointing to a precedent for removing a judge who had commented publicly on a pending court case. The move is part of the software vendor's ongoing attempts to have the judge who ruled in its antitrust case removed. I guess Microsoft's next step is to cite a precedent for removing the facts! Anyone who has been on the net for two or three years has witnessed plenty of Microsoft's anticompetitive behavior. And anyone who followed the antitrust case witnessed plenty of Microsoft's other crooked tactics. The Judge has simply stated the obvious - that Microsoft has proven it is an untrustworthy monopolist maker of crummy proprietary software. Could we please get this over with and move on? The Internet itself should be proof enough that the future is in open source systems. Anyone can publish a web page that can be viewed on any kind of hardware without paying a "tax" to Microsoft, or anyone else. Microsoft's lengthy appeal's process is, at best, an expensive waste of the taxpayer's money in a futile attempt to delay the inevitable. The fact is, there is no good reason why future systems should be drastically different from the old open source system which worked for thousands of years - pencil and paper! Does one company control all the pencils and paper? Then why should one company be allowed to control the digital equivalent? |
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