Microsoft Settlement Feedback

[voidmain]

http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ms-major.htm

Man, there is some *good* readin' in these feedback letters!!

[voidmain]

And I am also happy to note that the www.usdoj.gov web site is *not* running MS/IIS.    They "appear" to alternate between Apache and Netscape-Enterprise/4.0 on Solaris and have been for at least the last year and a half.

[voidmain]

I read a majority of those letters, only one support the so called "remedy" as proposed.  Most of them appeared to get their information from www.fuckmicrosoft.com as they expressed a lot of issues that we've been talking about here.  Now if only the courts will listen will it be a brighter future.

I get the feeling though, if they do what they appear to have done the first time around.  Is draft a new remedy and then go to Microsoft and say "Does this look ok to you?".  And Microsoft will of course reply "Hell no, go back and try again!".  <sigh>  I don't understand why Microsoft has *anything* to do with the acceptance of a remedy, after all, they were the ones found "guilty".

[Gonusto]

quote:I don't understand why Microsoft has *anything* to do with the acceptance of a remedy, after all, they were the ones found "guilty".
 

Because they have money . . .


-Gonusto

[Gonusto]

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-846338.html

 

quote:The period of public comment closed one month ago, with 15,000 of the 30,000 respondents arguing against the settlement. Overall, the comments opposed the proposed deal by a 2-to-1 margin.

 I wonder how many of it's employees Microsoft had to pay to get even that many votes . . . ?


-Gonusto

[Calum]

why waste money? they could just threaten or dupe them.