Thursday, September 6, 2001

Breaking up Is Hard to Do -- 11:41 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

The U.S. Department of Justice has decided to stop seeking to break up Microsoft. I'm not exactly sure how I feel about this. I know that M$ needs to be reigned in, but after the whole Judge Jackson debacle, it was seeming unlikely that M$ would actually be broken up anyway. The various state Attorneys General seem to be in favor of this decision. I guess we'll have to wait and see what actually happens.

I've a feeling that most Americans are sick and tired of the whole thing. They see no problem with Microsoft and can't fathom why people would take issue with their practices. It's kind of hard to for the government to keep throwing cash at it when no one seems to care.

The Master comments: The biggest issue with this whole thing is that people do not see the dangers of Microsoft as a monolithic giant. If this case is thrown out, the government will have a VERY difficult time trying to bring down Microsoft once they start playing big brother on everyone (passport? activation? software-renewal contracts?) but by then it will be impossible to remove this tick from the computing hide. I guess we'll see what happens. I'm sure it won't be pretty.

News for 09/06/2001

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