Although lengthy, it is excellently lucid: the plaintiffs' rebuttal to Microsoft - http://www.naag.org/features/microsoft/reply3.pdf The site is that of the National Association of Attorneys General; this is the authentic document. (It is amazing the extent to which the nightly news can differ from the actual proceedings.) FYI, The parent URL is http://www.naag.org/features/microsoft2.html -Bill Excerpt, from the "Introduction": "Microsoft attempts to elide the need for structural relief by pretending, contrary to the evidence at trial and this Court's findings, that its conduct had no effect on competition. For example, the evidence at trial (including Microsoft's own internal documents) showed, and this Court found, that Microsoft's illegal conduct eliminated the serious threat that the browser and Java posed to become a middleware platform that would make applications available to multiple operating systems and erode the applications barrier to entry. There is no doubt that the browser and Java posed a serious threat; certainly, Bill Gates and other Microsoft executives had no doubt at the time. Nor can there be any doubt that Microsoft's conduct eliminated that threat. The evidence also showed, and the Court found, that Microsoft used its control over its applications (including Office) to limit the ability of actual and potential competitors to compete effectively. What remedy does Microsoft propose to undo the damage to competition caused by its past illegal conduct? Nothing. Moreover, despite months of analyzing potential remedies (including reorganizations similar to that proposed by plaintiffs), and despite the fact that information concerning potential issues with respect to such a reorganization is uniquely within Microsoft's knowledge, Microsoft offers no factual support for any of it objections. Instead, it offers only unsupported speculation as to possible problems -- speculation that is inconsistent with the trial record, with the detailed submissions made with plaintiffs' remedy proposal, and with Microsoft's own prior statements." ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************