Wall Street Journal: Court Ruling Was No Victory For Microsoft

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 8, 2001

[ Thanks to Greg Abbott for this link. ]

When the Wall Street Journal says you’re an evil monopoly, you’re an evil monopoly. Robert Bork and Kenneth Starr (yes, the Robert Bork and Kenneth Starr) write:

“While trumpeting last week’s ‘victory’ in the Court of Appeals, Microsoft executives would do well to recall the words of King Pyrrhus after his famous battle with the Romans: ‘One more such victory and we are lost.’ The truth behind the spin is that Microsoft’s victory was not even pyrrhic. A quotation from George Armstrong Custer would be more appropriate, if only he’d been available for a press conference after Little Big Horn. The government won on the central issue in the case: Microsoft was held to have monopolized the operating-system market in violation of the Sherman Act.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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