Appeals court ponders Microsoft antitrust suit
C|Net | at | by Mike
A federal appeals court on Tuesday returned once again to the long-running Microsoft antitrust case, which may be nearing an end after six years of high-profile injunctions, hearings and testimony.
Judge David Sentelle replied by suggesting that the consent decree, which Microsoft is already following, was no more ambiguous than any similar document. "Some find ambiguity in a 'No Smoking' sign," Sentelle said.
CCIA and SIIA had unsuccessfully tried to convince the courts to carve Microsoft up into three parts responsible for operating systems, software applications and Internet products, respectively. CCIA's members include AOL, Sun, Red Hat, and Oracle, and it distributed a recent study that said Microsoft software was a hazard to the economy and to national security.