Word: jacksonism
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...appeals-court ruling partly reversing the antitrust verdict against it. The decision clearly sent a burst of sunshine Microsoft's way. Gates & Co. won on the most critical issue: the court unanimously reversed the trial court's order splitting Microsoft in two. And it upbraided Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, a Microsoft nemesis, for his comments to the media and booted him off the case...
...ruling left plenty of dark clouds hovering over Microsoft just as the company is releasing a phalanx of products designed to strengthen its Internet strategy, including Windows XP, its updated operating system. The court affirmed Judge Jackson's two most damning holdings--that Microsoft is a monopoly and that it engaged in illegal anticompetitive acts. The court sent the case back to the trial court for new hearings that could result in substantial remedies against Microsoft--even, although it's now unlikely, another breakup order. Perhaps most troubling: the ruling could pave the way for a flood of private antitrust...
Last week's decision is the latest turn in a lawsuit that has been 3 1/2 years of bad road for Microsoft. The ruling was the best Microsoft has seen in the case, but it fell far short of a full-throttle victory. The appeals court unanimously upheld Judge Jackson's finding that Microsoft is a monopoly "in its entirety." And it set out a laundry list of actions--from bullying computer makers into bundling its Internet browser to deceiving developers of the rival Java programming language--that broke federal antitrust...
...case with no clear winner, there was one undeniable loser--Judge Jackson. The court blasted him for "egregious" violations of the judicial-conduct canons, when he rattled on to the press while the case was pending, offering his opinion that Bill Gates had a "Napoleonic concept of himself and his company" and comparing Microsoft to a drug gang...
...thought that Jesse Jackson committed hilarious though pardonable blasphemy when he introduced Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. to last summer's Democratic National Convention by saying, in the voice of God, "This is my son, in whom I am well pleased...