Microsoft foe described as "Obsessive"
WinInfo | at | by Mike
The timing of Judge Kollar-Kotelly's ruling is interesting, coming as it does just days before elections in which many of the attorneys general that backed further remedies in the Microsoft suit are coming up for reelection. In one such case, Martha Dean, the Republican candidate for Attorney General of Connecticut is demanding that her rival, incumbent Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, give up his "obsessive" legal pursuit o the software giant. "Mr. Blumenthal's bold attempt to grab Microsoft's source code shows just how extreme his position is," Dean said this week. "Note to Mr. Blumenthal: Here in America, we do not allow our tax dollars to be used to take by force the intellectual property of one successful business and give it to its competitors." Yikes. Note to Mrs. Dean: Here in America we also don't allow a company to illegally gain a monopoly which it can then use to crush competition. Or maybe you're just not familiar with the ruling against Microsoft in its sweeping antitrust case.