It’s no surprise, but somehow it’s still a shock to the system to read the judge’s decision in the Microsoft antitrust trial.
This is the most important antitrust case in the past half-century, at least. And Microsoft is guilty, says the judge (Mercury News story), of a wide variety of lawbreaking.
More in my Tuesday column.
Noteworthy coverage elsewhere:
A New Domain Name System
At the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference, a large group discussed the flaws in the current DNS (Domain Name System) and ideas on how to improve it. Sitting at the table in this picture, left to right, are four of the participants: Dave Kristol of Bell Laboratories, Lenny Foner of MIT’s Media Lab, John Gilmore of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Roger Clarke of the Australian National University.
More on the discussion later…