Thanks to Orv Beach for this
link.
The antitrust trial of Microsoft Corp. was supposed to be a
swift affair, but instead it has slowed to a crawl while events
outside the courtroom appear to be overtaking the landmark case.
Open source software is mentioned later in the article.
“The world of high technology, moving at light speed compared to
the federal judicial system, has shifted in ways that appear to
undermine some of the government’s key points in the case and could
leave moot the overall allegation that Microsoft used its dominance
in the software industry to stifle competition in Internet
technologies.”