Jonathan Todd
Jonathan Todd
believe decision final microsoft offer reason respect
We have no reason to believe that they will not make final offer before midnight. We have no reason to believe that Microsoft will not respect the decision made in 2004.
since
What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.
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The only plan professor Barrett has presented was in January, when he proposed that he work with Microsoft engineers to improve the documentation.
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It's the quality and not the quantity that counts. You can give half-a-million pages, but if it's not the right information for competitors to be able to make compatible work group server products then it doesn't resolve the compliance issue.
mandate
It is part of the trustee's mandate to have these contacts.
lawyers might parties study type whether
Whether or not the new transaction will have to be re-notified will be something that the parties and the lawyers of the parties will have to study very carefully. If, for example, it is a different type of transaction it might have to be re-notified.
available bring code compliance microsoft precisely reply source statement
The onus is on Microsoft to explain, in its reply to the statement of objections today, precisely why and how making the source code available would bring it into compliance with the remedy.