Tread lightly on the things of earth

The Microsoft antitrust case decision is out:

• Salon: Scott Rosenberg: Money talks, Microsoft walks
• Dan Gillmor: Microsoft: Freedom to dominate
• Rafe Colburn: Microsoft ruling review

I remember foreseeing this outcome as an inevitable consequence of Dubya becoming president. I’d like to be appalled, but as I see it, it’s just business-as-usual for this U.S. administration.

On the one hand, this decision is bad news for all of us; for starters, it gives tacit approval that corporate criminal behavior pays.

OTOH, it’s hard for me to give a damn as I’ve long since left everything Microsoft behind. Nonuse of Microsoft products is such a done deal in my life that after years and years of fighting this crap, I’m finally able to just let this new load of it go.

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