Rusty Carruth wrote:
>
> If the states Attorneys General and the DOJ could actually come up with
> a workable way to prevent this from happening again (*) (all GOOD suggestions
> should probably to them ASAP!) it is conceivable that M$ could end up
> losing more than they would have with a breakup....
> (* - and somehow 'repair' some of the damge done - good luck!)
Without some competitive advertising, *any* mention of M$ is "free advertising"
for them, even if it's negative...
.... <dream>
Court forces M$ to make available an amount of $$$ (equal to their last, say 6
years' advertising $$$) for any competitor to fund advertising... then
competitors advertise while bills are sent directly to M$ until those $$$ are
exhausted... The sooner the $$$ are spent, the sooner M$ gets to return to
normal (legal!) competitive business model.
M$ counters with a one year limit on such advertising in a "use it or lose it"
funding in exchange for a "Paid by Microsoft pursuant to Court imposed sanctions
for antitrust and monopolistic misdeeds" trailer on each ad (based on their
understanding of "even negative ads are good when repeated often enough so that
only 'Paid by M$' is remembered by viewers"...)
Competitor fortunes rise (allowing funding of post-sanction advertising), boom
boosts economy, stocks rise, ...
</dream>
:^)
Pierre
