[Analysts agree that the potential antitrust implications of the deal are few.] On the surface, the only apparent antitrust problem appears to be the fact that AOL and Time Warner's Roadrunner might be seen as being competing Internet services, ... But Roadrunner is a pipsqueak of a player compared to AOL's service. It's conceivable they could force the divestiture of Roadrunner. But that's not a big deal. |
[Bush and his staff] are clearly playing defense on this issue because events got ahead of them, |
[The planned hearings are] background music, ... but it doesn't mean that the department will necessarily listen to Congress. |
A disproportionate number of innovations are developed by entrepreneurs, as opposed to big firms. |
Even if they slap Jackson down on the tying issue, there still will be the rest of the verdict. |
He will be one influential judge--no question about it. I think the justices will look to him for guidance because he had that job. |
I don't know whether they can get the momentum back. At this point, they're in damage control mode. |
I don't see where there is a problem in the U.S., |
is a move in the right direction but doesn't go far enough. |
It's against the Justice Department's interest to have Judge Jackson make an immediate remedy decision because that increases the odds that he would be reversed on appeal, ... There is a fair chance that experts who have already submitted affidavits in the case will be called as witnesses and there will be a mini-trial that revolves around remedies. |
It's against the Justice Department's interest to have Judge Jackson make an immediate remedy decision because that increases the odds that he would be reversed on appeal. There is a fair chance that experts who have already submitted affidavits in the case will be called as witnesses and there will be a mini-trial that revolves around remedies. |
It's not without basis to say that the Court of Appeals is the preferred place for Microsoft, ... But normally on fact finding, appeals judges give great deference to a lower court. |
It's the mostly unlikely source of competition that I can imagine for Microsoft. It's amazing. |
Microsoft did a whole bunch more things wrong after the consent decree. A breakup is not as preposterous today as it was back then. |
Oftentimes, Congress wants to get involved because of the theater of it all, |