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Microsoft to Suggest Its Own Penalty.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2000 by Gillmor, Dan
May 2--Now it's the defendant's turn. In a week and a half, Microsoft Corp. will tell U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson a) what's wrong with the government's proposal to break up the company and b) its own suggestions, if any, on what kind of remedies the court should impose in the antitrust case.
This is tricky. After all, Microsoft insists it's done nothing wrong and should never have been put on trial in the first place.
But the judge has ordered the company to do this -- and it will be mighty interesting to see what it comes up with.
Microsoft will file its recommendations "on remedies we believe are reasonable and commensurate with (Jackson's) conclusions of law," even though it also plans to appeal those conclusions, says Mark...
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