"David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The appeals courts upheld that the trial court did not abuse its > discretion. However, both a finding of "yes, Microsoft had a monopoly" and a > finding of "no, Microsoft did not have a monopoly" would both have been > within the trial court's discretion.
No, that finding would have been contradictory to the facts at hand. > They could just as easily have found that Linux, OSX, FreeBSD, and > other operating systems competed with Windows. Nice try, but those other OS's did not have enough market share to prevent the finding of monopoly under the law. > To call it an "established legal fact" is to grossly distort the > circumstances under which it was determined and upheld. Who is paying you to post such nonsense? If the trial court determines a fact and it's upheld on appeal, it's an established legal fact regardless of whether you or Microsoft likes it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list