Rivals come up short in decision
C|Net | at | by Mike
U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said Friday that she rejected harsh antitrust punishments for Microsoft because they would unfairly benefit its competitors. In her strongly worded decision, Kollar-Kotelly said that the remedies proposed by nine state attorneys general were so outlandish that they amounted to an "unjustified manipulation of the marketplace" designed to give competitors such as Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer, and Red Hat an "artificial advantage."
In a 344-page decision, Kollar-Kotelly dismissed many of the proposals as based on a misunderstanding of antitrust law and the purpose of 32 days of remedy hearings this spring.