All Posts Tagged With: "Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson"
World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies
Journalist Ken Auletta’s book about the Microsoft antitrust case is not just another Microsoft-bashing diatribe. On the contrary, World War 3.0 is a remarkably evenhanded investigation of this infamous case, providing some good insights into the basis (or lack of it) of the now-nullified judicial order to break Microsoft into two companies. Unfortunately, the book [...]
30Jun2010 | Barbara R. Hunter | 0 comments | ContinuedRebel Code: Inside Linux and the Open Source Revolution
Perseus Publishing • 2001 • 334 pages • $27.50 Reviewed by Andrew Morriss During the Microsoft antitrust trial a great deal of ink was spilled in the press over Microsoft’s alleged monopolization of various markets and its practices in marketing both its browser (Internet Explorer) and its operating systems (such as Windows 2000). Although Judge [...]
1May2002 | Glyn Moody | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Philosophical Influence Behind the Microsoft Trial
Barbara Hunter is an advanced level computer support specialist at a large law firm. “. . . trial moves rapidly on when the judge has determined the sentence beforehand.” —spoken by Malvoisin in Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe It may seem that the Microsoft antitrust trial was anything but rapid, but a closer examination reveals a [...]
1Oct2000 | Barbara R. Hunter | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Microsoft Case: Divestiture Won’t Help Consumers
D. T. Armentano is professor emeritus in economics at the University of Hartford and author of Antitrust and Monopoly (Independent Institute) and Antitrust: The Case for Repeal (Mises Institute). Critics of Microsoft, rallied by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson’s finding that the company has monopoly power over much of the computer industry, have urged a breakup [...]
1Apr2000 | D. T. Armentano | 0 comments | ContinuedBarbarians at Bill Gates
William Shughart is the Frederick A. P. Barnard Distinguished Professor of Economics and holder of the Robert M. Hearin Chair in Business Administration at the University of Mississippi. It was a glorious fall day on the East Coast when Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Joel Klein stepped up to the microphone at a news conference [...]
1Apr2000 | William F. Shughart II | 0 comments | Continued-
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