Microsoft hearing enters third day
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An attorney for Microsoft Corp. is arguing that the company shouldn't be slapped with a court injunction because of the popularity of Windows. Kevin Murphy, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, testified Wednesday that Microsoft's distribution advantage with Windows is not the key issue in the case brought by Sun Microsystems. "Either in economics or in law, you don't have a right to piggyback on somebody else just because they're successful," said Michael Lacovara, a Microsoft attorney who called Murphy to the stand. Microsoft attorney David Tulchin said Sun was trying to "engineer the marketplace" in seeking the injunction.