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  Friday  July 6  2001    12: 54 PM

Court Ruling Was No Victory For Microsoft
King Pyrrhus, meet Bill Gates.

BY ROBERT H. BORK AND KENNETH W. STARR

While trumpeting last week's "victory" in the Court of Appeals, Microsoft executives would do well to recall the words of King Pyrrhus after his famous battle with the Romans: "One more such victory and we are lost." The truth behind the spin is that Microsoft's victory was not even pyrrhic. A quotation from George Armstrong Custer would be more appropriate, if only he'd been available for a press conference after Little Big Horn. The government won on the central issue in the case: Microsoft was held to have monopolized the operating-system market in violation of the Sherman Act.

I never thought I would agree with anything Bork and Starr wrote!

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