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Article: PRESCRIPTIONS ELUSIVE FOR CURBING MICROSOFT
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 3, 2000
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WASHINGTON - As Microsoft Corp. and prosecutors tried to negotiate
an antitrust settlement, they bogged down over how to craft a
loophole-free agreement that gave the famously aggressive software
maker no room to wriggle out of its promised changes in behavior,
sources said yesterday.
Now, the same problem will likely face Federal District Judge
Thomas Penfield Jackson, who is presiding over the case.
With settlement talks collapsing on Saturday, Jackson is expected
to issue his verdict this week on whether Microsoft broke the
nation's antitrust laws. All indications are that he will rule that
Microsoft did violate the law, and that the trial should next
consider what penalty is in order.
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