[For the parallels to be closer, you'd have to have a biased and not-too-bright judge who decided from day one to side with the Justice Department, which in turn was bringing a case on behalf of politically well-connected firms that had been failing to compete in the marketplace but that chose not to spend shareholders' money on their own private antitrust suits against the alleged monopolist. Still, it's a good read. :) --Declan] --- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 18:48:02 -0500 From: "Robin 'Roblimo' Miller" <robin@private> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> Subject: Eyewitness account of the Linux monopoly trial Washington DC, January 31, 2014 -- Riot police have finally managed to beat back the milling throng of displaced Visual Basic programmers who attacked the courthouse after Judge Cotter Kathelly announced that Linux was not an illegal monopoly and that neither Linus Torvalds nor his company, Linux Development, Inc, owed damages to former employees and shareholders of now-bankrupt Microsoft or to any of its business partners. - by Robin 'Roblimo' Mille (Reporters Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair contributed to this article) http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/01/30/0111257&mode=nested&tid=149 _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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