No Micro$oft Breakup!!!

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Nemesis77

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That aint news, the courts already said that splitting the company up is too severe.

What I would like to see... MS has about 30 billion in cash and short-term investments. Fines of about 20 billion dollars would be suitable. Massive fines for the people making decisions in MS (Ballmer, Gates etc.). I mean, it has already been decided that MS broke the law, what we have left is to think of a suitable punishment.
 
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Geforcekj

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ok so I heard the "breaking" news on the 7:30 news and thought I'd finish making my lunch come down here and tell you all...jesus nothing gets buy you guys...for alll your breaking news Anandtech OT forums...
 
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WOOHOO!!! I love microsoft!!! Bring on XP baby!! Oh wait, I'm already running it :D
 
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Nemesis77

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<< I knew they had no case. Thankfully. >>



Huh? Courts said that MS is a monopoly and that they have abused that monopoly. Only thing they said in favour of MS was that break-up is too severe! DOJ very-much has a case against MS!
 
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KeyserSoze

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Question about this: Do you think that the DOJ backed off cuz of the current state of the Economy, especially the Tech Industry?

Just wondering.




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Nemesis77

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<< Question about this: Do you think that the DOJ backed off cuz of the current state of the Economy, especially the Tech Industry? >>



Nope, they backed out because the courts said that break-up is too severe. They wouldn't have accepted it as an remedy. I just hope that they this time punish MS for real, instead of the slap in the wrist they got last time.
 
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M$ is the #1 Tech stock this year. It is pretty much the only bit of silver lining out there. Rush Limbaugh will tell you that the decline of the NASDAQ started the very day that the DOJ ruled against M$ about 2 years ago. Something tells me that M$, despite all its faults, can lead the Tech sector out of its recession.
 
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Cyberian

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Does everyone think that the original DOJ decision was incorrect, or just that M$ is above the law under which other companies in the US must operate?
 
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CQuinn

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A lot of people seem to get these two facts mixed up.



<< Huh? Courts said that MS is a monopoly and that they have abused that monopoly. >>



Being a monopoly is not illegal, abuse of monopoly power and position is. That is what the courts determined.



<< Only thing they said in favour of MS was that break-up is too severe! DOJ very-much has a case against MS! >>



The DOJ has a case against the practices that MS made in abuse of their monopoly position, but any punishment
or remedy they come up with can only go so far as to address those practices and correct the companies behavior
in those areas that were restrictive of competition from other companies, or restrictive of consumers better interests.

The problem with the breakup idea was that some parts of the company do not have a direct link to the practices
that the court ruled against, and as such those parts would be unduly punished by such a remedy. While some
people might not care (or might prefer) an excessive punishment laid against Microsoft, that would also put the
company in a prime position to get such punishment reversed on appeal if they could show that the decision was
overreaching the actual remedy needed. Even the DOJ has to act in a fair and impartial manner in this regard.

 
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