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Excellent article that really looks at the history of antitrust law and draws a pretty spot-on analysis of the current case, and how the presiding judge, Amit Mehta, compares to Harold Greene, who broke up AT&T:
I think the author is being a bit too hopeful here that Congress will enact stronger anti-trust legislation if the case fails, but he's likely right about this eventually ending up in front of the Supreme Court.
Microsoft got off with an incredibly light slap on the wrist in 1998 considering what they'd done. I've worked as a software dev for 30 years and I'd say that Microsoft successfully held back progress and the web for a good 10 years.