Re:not going to settle (Score 2)

They won't settle 'cause the DoJ and MS disagree on the basic issue of tying: the DoJ thinks it's bad, and MS thinks it's good. MS has already agreed to restrictions on pricing and various other remedies, but it all comes down to tying and how to prevent it. (Oh, and by the way, Bill and MS are obnoxious and as arrogant as heck, but that doesn't seem to be a huge problem in this industry. Ask Larry or Scott.) So, the only relevant question is: should MS be allowed to add nifty features or utilities - hell, even whole apps - to the OS? Like, say, fonts, disk compression, a backup utility, screen savers, a web server, a web browser, a task scheduler, an ftp client, a tcp/ip stack, and various other things that they've already added? I would posit that bundling is clearly good for consumers in the short term, and unbundling is clearly good for competitors in the short term, but beyond that we have essentially no data. Lots of opinions and wishful thinking and monkey-wrenching, but no data. So, buck up and get used to this story - it'll be around for a *long* time. P.S. - imagine what would happen if MS decided to build a web site like Apple's, that's tied to specific Windows features. Why haven't they? Because it's a bad idea? Because they haven't done it yet? Because they're afraid of throwing 40 gallons of gasoline on the issue of tying during the appeal process?