The Microsoft Antitrust Appeal: Judge Jackson's "Findings of Fact" Revisited [Paperback]

Alan Reynolds (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 25, 2001

A judge's legal ruling can be a complex interaction between facts and laws. However if a judge bases his ruling on erroneous technological theories, speculation, and forecasts, the final decision will be a wasteland of legal mumbo-jumbo, incomprehensible to both lawyers and critics. This is what happened when judge Thomas Penfield Jackson decided the Microsoft antitrust case, ordering the division of the software giant into two separate companies. This major new study of the Microsoft antitrust trial quotes extensively from Judge Jackson's Findings of Fact, then offers analysis and evidence that questions the accuracy, consistency and relevance of those findings. The author argues that many key facts are clearly erroneous or contradictory. Other facts involve dubious technological theories, speculations, opinions and forecasts. Since the Findings of Fact form the basis of all charges of illegal behavior, the author finds the case " literally baseless." The book also provides detailed reporting of key meetings and memos from Microsoft, Netscape, and many more top players involved in the trial of the computer software and hardware industries. Reynolds brings the reader deep into the world of legal questions surrounding computers and software, and gives deep insights into this increasingly important industry.

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About the Author

Alan Reynolds is a senior fellow with the Cato Institute. His work on antitrust economics over the past twenty-five years has appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, Reason, Internet Law and Business, and many others.

Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Hudson Inst (May 25, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558131302
• ISBN-13: 978-1558131309
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,178,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Alan Reynolds is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and was formerly Director of Economic Research at the Hudson Institute. He served as Research Director with National Commission on Tax Reform and Economic Growth, an advisor to the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education, and as a member of the OMB transition team in 1981. His studies have been published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Joint Economic Committee, the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and St. Louis and the Australian Stock Exchange. Author of Income and Wealth (Greenwood Press 2006), he has written for numerous publications since 1971 including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post,The Financial Times, The New York Times, National Review, The New Republic, Fortune and The Harvard Business Review. He is also former columnist with Forbes, Reason and Creators Syndicate.