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...tactics of the software giant. After the exhaustive trial and the clear findings of fact issued last November, the public can feel confident that the facts stand fully behind Jackson's decision. Yet justice will not have been fully served until the court specifies an appropriate remedy and the verdict is allowed to stand on appeal...
Microsoft's repeated use of the term "innovation" to describe its business practices in its response to the verdict verges on the comical. The evidence at trial showed that the company paid vast sums and "renounced many millions more in lost revenue every year" to decrease the market share of Netscape Navigator--spending that "can only represent a rational investment if its purpose was to perpetuate the applications barrier to entry." Concluded Jackson: "Microsoft's decision to tie Internet Explorer to Windows cannot truly be explained as an attempt to benefit consumers and improve the efficiency of the software market...
...fully support the statement and am glad that some of the Harvard faculty has decided to take a stance on this issue," McClelland said. "I think that the overall issue of police brutality and excessive force is bigger than the verdict, which is why I think the statement focused on that. Even people who supported the verdict should still feel that it is a travesty for an unarmed man to be fired upon 41 times...
...Final Verdict...
...decision in the Microsoft antitrust trial. As the 5 p.m. announcement drew nearer on Monday, the desktop dealers dumped more and more of their investments in the tech-heavy NASDAQ, and by the time Jackson, who four months earlier had found that Microsoft wielded monopoly power, delivered a guilty verdict on two of three counts of abusing that power, they had produced a record 348-point, 7.6 percent plunge...