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RickK, JonGwynne, shall we discuss this? Overtly-biased was probably over the line, but the other comments did contain fact, and, perhaps RickK should have edited them instead of reverting? -- Baylink 16:28, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
For this article to be anything close to fair, you'd have to mention the rather blatant lying that microsoft's legal team tried to get away with during the trial. Jackson didn't start out with anything against MS, he became disgusted with them after they lied to him several times in the course of the trial. That little stunt with the edited videotape, for one thing...
There's already an article on the Microsoft case. I think a biography ought to be more broad than this one issue. I came to Wikipedia to look him up after catching this reference -- [1] -- in which Jackson dismissed a murder case involving the American bombing of two Libyan cities. The article has him comparing Microsoft to gangland murders, but there's no mention of that, either, here. I think this article needs to be much broader, and to include some personal information. -- Thatnewguy 03:22, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
I have tagged this since there is no citation that supports this claim and I can only find references to the "appearance of impartiality". Captain Nemo III ( talk) 20:19, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
This article was terribly and deceptively written, very likely by a source with a strong pro MS bias. The article had read as if the judge was biased and had been found to have been biased, neither of which was found to be the case. Had the judge been found to have bias, they would have thrown out the case and his rulings. To the contrary, almost all of the judges rulings were upheld on appeal. I do not know the author, but given the business practices which MS has repeated been found guilty of (see EU anti trust conviction September 17 2007) one cannot exclude the possibility that MS has paid to have this written in a fashion favorable to MS.
But this is Wikipedia. I'll check the article again in a few months to see if the Softies have rewritten it again to make it appear as if the judge should be on trial, not the repeatedly convicted predatory monopolist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dfolk ( talk • contribs) 21:56, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Predatory monopolist- This is a term of art in the US legal system, and this is what the US legal system found Microsoft to be. Please refer to the following for details and description- and I believe you will find there was nothing ignorant about the above comment.
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f225600/225658.htm
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=108&CFID=7094732&CFTOKEN=36373950&jsessionid=a830a48297defd2c0f89781320243e3a9731
http://www.linfo.org/monopoly_predatory_tactics.html
http://www.albion.com/microsoft/findings.html
In the interest of accuracy, I had edited the text on judge Jackson. I stand by my initial comments. I think the fact that you did not know what the term "predatory monopoly" meant, yet you stated I was ignorant...well, I will let unbiased readers review the facts and come to their own conclusion. My objective was to begin to restore some level of accuracy to the original text. Dfolk ( talk)
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