| sethnintendo said: @Jordahn, yea they went after Microsoft during the 90s for anti-trust but nothing ever came of it. Pretty much USA doesn't give a shit about any monopoly and hasn't busted up a monopoly since the early 1900s around Standard Oil, etc... time. |
It was a guilty vertict that was to be followed by a breakup. Microsoft was to be broken into two separate companies, a OS company and a software application company. This way it would have allowed for other software application companies (including the break off from Microsoft) to be able to compete better with each other. What had happened was that eventhought the guilty vertict was justified, Judge Thomas Penfield personal comments were enough to justify an appeal to the Surpreme Court in which the breakup was denied. Instead, it was only a slap in the wrist in which Microsoft's internal records were opened for only five years to prevent them don't anything monopolistic behind closed doors. But in the public corporate world, five years is nothing compared to the long term running of a public corporate business.
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