Some Thoughts On Solutions To Microsoft v. DoJ

This is intended as a brief analysis of some of the proposed solutions / settlements to the 1998/1999 Microsoft anti-trust lawsuit brought by the United States Department of Justice and several of the Attorneys General of the States constituting the United States of America.
As a base of argument let me state a few postulates. As a condition of the terms of a plea bargain: 1) the defendant shall agree that the plea is the same as a guilty verdict and 2) crime shall not pay.
Let me continue that the suit is brought against a repeat offender. This defendant was brought before the Federal courts previously and agreed to a plea bargain in 1995. Although the current court found that Microsoft was not currently in violation of the letter of the 1995 Consent Decree, it did hint that the defendant was in violation of the spirit of the law. Therefore it is important to note now that there was significant juridical opposition to the consent decree of 1995 based upon vague wording and unenforceability. These mistakes should not be made again by the learned Attorneys General and Judge Jackson. {Read The Rest of These 4 Year Old Thoughts}