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Although it still claims its innocence on antitrust charges, the software giant Microsoft on May 10 presented Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson with an alternative remedy to counter the government's proposed breakup. Unsurprisingly, the company's solution placed unacceptably weak restrictions on Microsoft's future conduct and left open a number of loopholes that are likely to be closed by the government's plan. A remedy as narrow as Microsoft's will not do enough to dissuade the company from continuing its abuse of monopoly power--a stronger resolution to the case must be employed...
...stop it from requiring vendors to include other Microsoft products with Windows; and most importantly, they would not separate the financial interests of the applications and operating systems divisions of the company. Given the danger that Microsoft could evade, through legal wordplay or technological change, the content of conduct remedies, the latter seems necessary to prevent future abuse. The government's plan, which incorporates these elements, is a more sound starting point for restoring competition--and spurring innovation--in the software industry...
Should presidential candidates be held to a higher standard of conduct than the rest...
Should Giuliani, or any other politician, be held to a higher standard of conduct than the rest of us? Or a lower standard? And should the New York Times be held to a higher standard than the National Enquirer? If so, what would that higher standard dictate? Should the Times ignore the adultery of public figures? Or run it, briefly, on page...
...Vacation scheduling also creates difficulties. Winter break and "fly-out week" (when third year law students have no classes so that they may leave campus to conduct interviews) rarely coincide from graduate school to graduate school...