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goobster · 3128 days ago · link · · parent · post: Did the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit of 2000 accomplish anything?
Meh. It was in contravention of contracts that Microsoft signed in good faith. Then Sun and Microsoft went to court and fought that battle for a DECADE. They were even going to fly me back to the USA from where I was living in Budapest to testify... then I never heard another word from them. Then, Sun and Microsoft settled. Then Oracle bought the dregs of Sun at a garage sale one day in Silicon Valley, and now... well... we have applications running in web browsers built by Google and Apple.... that run software languages that were designed and written out of spite.