The Microsoft case: The go- between.(Microsoft antitrust case)(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, November, 1999
EVEN Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson described it as "something of a surprise". In fact, the appointment of a fellow judge, the head of the Chicago Appeals Court, Richard Posner, to try and mediate a settlement of the Microsoft antitrust case, was entirely consistent with his approach thus far.
Although it is a year since the trial opened, Judge Jackson is conscious both of the speed of technological change and of the interminable IBM case in the 1980s. Thus he has done everything he can to overcome the law's normal delay. In particular, he limited the number of trial witnesses to a miserly 12 for each side; and he has urged both Microsoft and the Department of Justice to make a stab at negotiating a settlement.
Even his ferocious "findings of fact",...
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