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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Teflon Bill | ||||
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Pompous, Arrogant, Enigmatic, Bitter, Quirky, Misanthrope with a Weird Sense of Humor and an Iron Clad Memory while flooding the board with my Stream of Consciousness UFC STRIKE 3 (I'm a dick and I like to ruin people's plans) | posted on 06-28-2001 @ 12:14 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 00  | Court Reverses Break Up of Microsoft The Associated Press Jun 28 2001 12:01PM WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court reversed the breakup of Microsoft Thursday and ordered that a new judge decide the landmark case. It was a major victory for the embattled software maker. The appeals court ruled that U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson improperly conducted himself in the case, leaving himself open to the appearance he was biased against Microsoft. ``We vacate the judgment on remedies, because the trial judge engaged in impermissible ex parte contacts by holding secret interviews with members of the media and made numerous offensive comments about Microsoft officials in public statements outside of the courtroom, giving rise to an appearance of partiality,'' the court said. ``Although we find no evidence of actual bias, we hold that the actions of the trial judge seriously tainted the proceedings before the District Court and called into question the integrity of the judicial process,'' the court added. The ruling was unanimous, by a 7-0 vote. Jackson ruled Microsoft had engaged in anti-competitive practices by packaging its Windows operating system with its Explorer Web browser. He concluded the company was an illegal monopoly and ordered the software giant broken into two as a penalty. By vacating the ruling, the appeals court sent the case back to the lower court but ordered that a different judge handle the decision on how to punish Microsoft. The appeals court affects only Jackson's decision on the breakup - not his conclusion that the company violated antitrust laws. In Redmond, Wash., Microsoft officials refrained from immediate comment until they could read the ruling. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decision is the most significant antitrust ruling since the court-ordered breakup of the AT&T telephone monopoly almost two decades ago. The decision, which faces a likely Supreme Court challenge, may embolden several new initiatives that Microsoft has under way to merge its popular software products. Microsoft had banked the future of the company on a strategy of extending the dominance of its Windows operating system to the Internet with new software that integrates with the core operating system. In reversing the breakup, the appeals court removed the penalty recommended by the Justice Department and 17 of the 19 states that sued Microsoft under antitrust laws. Justice Department lawyers and 19 states brought the antitrust case, charging that Microsoft used anti-competitive practices in bundling its Internet Explorer browser with Windows. As a result, Netscape's competing browser was pushed out of the marketplace, they said. Also, they said Microsoft bullied computer makers into ceding control of the computer's desktop. Microsoft argued that consumers appreciate having the browser and operating system in one package, and simply acted in its own interests in a competitive market. They say that the last several years of personal computer innovation is a testament to their practices. Both Microsoft and government lawyers were grilled by appeals judges during the first day of the February appeals hearings, as the techno-savvy judges asked pointed questions about whether the software company used anticompetitive practices to quash the ``nascent seedlings of competition.'' But on the second and final day, the mood turned sharply in Microsoft's favor as the judges were outraged at Jackson's statements to reporters before and after his order. In interviews with newspapers, magazines and book authors, Jackson was quoted as comparing chairman Bill Gates to Napoleon and the company to a drug-dealing street gang, among other comments. Jackson granted some of the interviews on an embargoed basis before the antitrust trial ended last year with the expectation they would be published afterward - a fact singled out by some appeals judges. The appeals court explained why it allowed Jackson's ruling that Microsoft violated antitrust law to stand while reversing his penalty. ``The most serious judicial misconduct occurred near or during the remedial stage. It is therefore commensurate that our remedy focus on that stage of the case,'' the appeals judges said. The judge's actions ``would give a reasonable, informed observer cause to question his impartiality in ordering the company split in two,'' the appeals court said. Furthermore, AdolescentMasturbator was unavailable for comment  Funny how ev'rything was roses When we held on to the guns Write To Me Here Oh, I believe in yesterday's got nothing for me | ||||
| Sephiroth | posted on 06-28-2001 @ 12:33 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 |  Edited to fix the mistake. It usually works though, it keeps tripod from knowing that you just use them to link images. Thanks for pointing that out Slash. This message was edited by Sephiroth on 6-28-01 @ 1:15 PM | ||||
Pompous, Arrogant, Enigmatic, Bitter, Quirky, Misanthrope with a Weird Sense of Humor and an Iron Clad Memory while flooding the board with my Stream of Consciousness UFC STRIKE 3 (I'm a dick and I like to ruin people's plans) | posted on 06-28-2001 @ 12:42 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 00 | quote: Havent you learned anything, wannabe HaXoR, a txt file will not show up as an image LOL Funny how ev'rything was roses When we held on to the guns Write To Me Here Oh, I believe in yesterday's got nothing for me | ||||
| King f-tard | posted on 06-28-2001 @ 1:12 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Feb. 01 | Naah, he left his picture on his rickshaw.:) | ||||
| Suzie I was supposed to have a status, but some FNMoron forgot what it was supposed to be. | posted on 06-28-2001 @ 2:21 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Aug. 00 | I thought President Clinton was Teflon Bill! | ||||
Pompous, Arrogant, Enigmatic, Bitter, Quirky, Misanthrope with a Weird Sense of Humor and an Iron Clad Memory while flooding the board with my Stream of Consciousness UFC STRIKE 3 (I'm a dick and I like to ruin people's plans) | posted on 06-28-2001 @ 2:25 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 00 | Nah, Clinton is old hat. Gates is Teflon Bill II, if you will. Besides, there is a subliminal message in the text. Funny how ev'rything was roses When we held on to the guns Write To Me Here Oh, I believe in yesterday's got nothing for me | ||||
| Tequila Fez claims this land in the name of Portugal! Why worry about the train if it never makes it around the tracks?? IrishAlkey wuz here!!! | posted on 06-28-2001 @ 6:19 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Jan. 01 | quote: And I was going to wait for his witty remarks. Any word on fdb?:):):):):):)  AOL - oanda1027fm | ||||
| AndyKoom | posted on 06-29-2001 @ 1:54 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Feb. 01 | Why's everyone so against Microsoft and Gates. It's just another case of being envious of someone else's success. If u don't like it just use linux or whatever else is out there.  | ||||
| Kid Afrika | posted on 06-29-2001 @ 8:55 AM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | Go rent Anti-trust. It'll make you wonder how much of a stand-up guy Bill Gates really is. "Any kid in a garage, with a good idea, can put me out of business."
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| AndyKoom | posted on 06-29-2001 @ 11:32 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Feb. 01 | That movie's not a really good choice to support your bias against gates. i just hope you're not anti-tech overall like these people who think global warming and genetic manipulation will bring on the end of the world. | ||||
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