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Friday, November 1, 2002 |
NYT. A US judge approved the politically motivated MS-DOJ settlement.
This proves one thing. As a society, we are still in denial about corporate abuses of power. Law, like any other system is prone to distortion by the views of the people that apply it.
However, this decision is the end result of the previous decision to settle the case. The debacle of the SEC/MS settlement, given the copious evidence to demonstrate abuse, shows that this adminstration (a nice way of saying BUSH) is in favor of business as usual. Unfortunately that means corporate greed and malfeasance is here to stay. Given our present economic circumstance, another round of scandal is likely to plunge us into a Japanese scenario. That is a situation where a country is so unable to reform itself that it continues to select stagnation rather than face the pain that will result in growth. It is a country were the general good is overcome by the needs of a select few. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
7:10:47 PM 
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 My own thoughts, nothing new here, it's all been said so many times before. But there's news today, so it must be said again. Here goes. There's no justice in today's decision. It won't stop Microsoft and other monopolists from seizing new monopolies through tying. It's anti-innovation because it paralyzes smaller developers, making it impossible for them to raise investment capital to pursue new software opportunities. Large companies don't innovate in software. To think they do is as wrong as it would be to believe that large corporations write innovative scripts, screenplays, novels, songs, plays. Government has yet to figure this out, nor has Microsoft or other big companies. Even so it's true. It's a sad day for software. It's a sad day for the USA. [Scripting News]
7:08:22 PM
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Umm... hey rockstar, can I do you? Is there an issue here at all? Kind of like finding an ounce of Iranian caviar in your fridge and then voluntarily throwing it up... yes, there's about sixteen different metaphors there! (update) Microsoft unlikely to appeal decision. Gates, Ballmer commit to "compliance" [InfoWorld: Top News]
7:07:34 PM
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The ghosts of liberals yet to run? DC march, Oct. 26
Did anyone notice that it took NPR five days to correct crowd estimates for the DC anti-war march? On the day of the march, they said that crowds had been estimated at 10,000. On the following Thursday evening, they apologized for the fact that there had apparently been ten times as many people at the march as they had reported.
Perfectly understandable, Ten thousand people, one hundred thousand: how could one possibly notice the difference? [Lisa Lynch's Radio Weblog]
7:04:22 PM
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© Copyright 2002 James Lynch III.
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