[SLUG-POL] Re: [SLUG] MS Threatens to Pull Windows From Market?!

From: Bill Triplett (btt@nethouse.com)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 07:21:38 EST


On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 01:31, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:05:33PM -0500, Norbert Cartagena wrote:
>
> > http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/05/0232253&mode=thread
> >
> > GREAT story by Robin. If any of you know anyone who has a business that
> > operates on WIndows, this might be the thing that makes them switch for
> > good.
> >
>
> There is no chance at all that MS will stop shipping Windows. This is
> Ballmer threatening the most dire of consequences to avoid what the
> non-settling states want. And it's an indicator of just how much he
> fears the possibility that, in the end, the non-settling states could
> win their case.
>
> Some possible scenarios, if Ballmer were to do something like this:

This is the best analysis I've read of this particular instance of MS's
legal strategy:

   http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/15254#236211



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