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New Loophole the second
J.No provision of this Final Judgment shall:
2.Prevent Microsoft from conditioning any license of any API, Documentation or Communications Protocol related to anti-piracy systems, anti-virus technologies, license enforcement mechanisms, authentication/authorization security, or third party intellectual property protection mechanisms of any Microsoft product to any person or entity on the requirement that the licensee:
(c)meets reasonable, objective standards established by Microsoft for certifying the authenticity and viability of its business


The italics are nonsense words that might as well not be there. Microsoft is free to define them as they wish. Microsoft's lawyers will again simply read the bolded sections in this massive "or" statement.
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Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978|Andrew Grygus]
New Interpretation
If we (ie Microsoft) are in competition with you, then you are going to die and therefore are not viable.


Cheers,
Ben
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]
     Can't say I'm surprised. - (inthane-chan) - (33)
         Eh? It's not 4:30 PM EST yet. - (Another Scott) - (3)
             Here - (drewk) - (2)
                 Thanks Drew. -NT - (Another Scott) - (1)
                     Thank /. -NT - (drewk)
         Damn - (drewk) - (5)
             I'd say thats a loophole.. - (bepatient) - (1)
                 Fergit the earth... - (inthane-chan)
             Hmmmm, legal semanitics, maybe? - (Brandioch)
             Loophole the second - (drewk) - (1)
                 Interpretation - (ben_tilly)
         Time to change name to Microsoft was Guilty? -NT - (andread) - (7)
             How about "Microsoft bought the DoJ?" -NT - (inthane-chan) - (6)
                 How about "What happened Davey?" - (drewk) - (4)
                     remember she had a choice of accept/reject and what - (boxley) - (3)
                         So in other words.... - (jb4) - (2)
                             Technicolour yawn time? -NT - (jake123) - (1)
                                 Uh-huh... - (jb4)
                 CKK is BG's bitch -NT - (kmself)
         Re: Can't say I'm surprised. - (SpiceWare) - (1)
             FBOG -NT - (drewk)
         The Reg Chimes in - (SpiceWare)
         I never thought it would be different. - (hnick) - (7)
             They're Doomed - (deSitter) - (6)
                 They are already dead? $40B buys a lot of life support. :-< -NT - (Another Scott)
                 A long, painful, while. - (Brandioch) - (2)
                     I absolutely agree. -NT - (jake123)
                     Schmidt + Ashcroft + THIS: means far more than industry loss - (Ashton)
                 Re: MS now entrenched as part of the 'system' - (dmarker) - (1)
                     Interestingly, Tom Siebel has recently signed with Sun . . - (Andrew Grygus)
         You know my opinion - (ben_tilly)
         I laughed (in frustration) a bit until... - (tseliot)
         Nope - (tuberculosis) - (1)
             It IS you... - (jb4)

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