Required Reading:

• United States v. Microsoft Corp., 87 F. Supp. 2d 30 (D.D.C. 1999) [Conclusions of Law, Parts I & II only].
• United States v. Microsoft Corp., 97 F. Supp. 2d 59 (D.D.C. 2000) [Remedial Order, part 1 and part 2].
• Nicholas Economides, Is the Microsoft ruling "a great victory for American consumers"? (Nov. 10, 1999).
• Jon Katz, The Netscape Tragedy, Slashdot (Nov. 23, 1998).
• Greg Lindsay & Eric Wemple, Instant-Messaging Restriction Won't Hamper AOL-Time Warner, The Standard (Jan. 12, 2001).
• GNU Project, What Is Copyleft?.
• Ellen Ullman, The Dumbing-Down of Programming, Salon 21st (May 1998).
• Richard Stallman, Why "Free Software" Is Better Than "Open Source".
• Eric S. Raymond, The Magic Cauldron (Revision 1.18, 2000).
• Mark A. Lemley & David McGowan, Could Java Change Everything?  The Competitive Propriety of a Proprietary Standard, 43 Antitrust Bull. 715 (1998).

• United States v. Microsoft Corp., 84 F. Supp. 2d 9 (D.D.C. 1999) [Findings of Fact] [I've included these in the reader at the end of this week's readings.  They are worth a quick skim, in whole or in part.].

• United States v. Microsoft Corp., 56 F.3d 1448 (D.C. Cir. 1995).
• Sun Microsystems, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., 188 F.3d 1115 (9th Cir. 1999).
• Explore NYU Stern School of Business Prof. Nicholas Economides’ Web site on the economics of networks.
• Explore the Mozilla Web site.
• Read the comments posted to Slashdot about the Katz article.
• Explore the Open Source Web site, and especially "The Halloween Documents."
• Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar (Revision 1.51, 2000).
• GNU Project, GNU General Public License.
• Explore the GNU Project Web site.

 

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