States can't take a hint
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Kollar-Kotelly said throughout the week that she thinks the states are taking "a very broad view" of what conduct they can address in seeking penalties. The states are not allowed to address issues that were not involved in their first case against Microsoft, which focused on the desktop computer operating system market. "I have concerns of you taking the same testimony and putting different labels on it," Kollar-Kotelly said.
Microsoft maintains the products have nothing to do with the current case, and the states only want to help its competitors. "This case was not about competition between forms of computing," Microsoft attorney John Warden said in court last week. "The demand is just for more, more, more."
Kollar-Kotelly said she was tired of proofreading for hearsay the written testimony offered by the states' witnesses. She threw out dozens of paragraphs of witness allegations that could not be corroborated.