Such was the 207-page "finding of fact" delivered by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson on Nov. 5.
But on Nov. 5, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson made the long-muttered accusation a matter of legal fact.
In an antitrust case ten years ago Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson called for Microsoft to be split apart.
More than 130 such cases have been filed since Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft in June.
That judge, Thomas Penfield Jackson , appears in retrospect to have come down with a very bad case of Judge Ito Whiplash--i.e.
The first chat was during the period when Microsoft was defending itself against the U.S. Department of Justice in front of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in the late 1990s.
The suit was among the first legal challenges to Microsoft's dominance, and it was cited extensively by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to support his findings in the Microsoft antitrust case.
District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said in June that Microsoft should be split in two as its sentence for abusing its dominant position in the personal computer operating system market.
Today only two lawsuits remain of the ten filed soon after federal judge Thomas Penfield Jackson declared in 2000 that Microsoft had abused its monopolies in software operating systems and desktop applications.
When Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson fingered Microsoft as a monopoly on Nov. 5, the software giant's head honcho, Bill Gates, was quick to respond with a statement of his own.
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True, the court reversed the finding that Microsoft had attempted to monopolise the market for web-browser software, and also overturned last year's ruling by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that the company should be split in two.
But it won this point largely for reasons that had little to do with Microsoft's conduct and a lot to do with Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson 's failure to hold a hearing on remedies or to explain his reasoning.
Two days earlier, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson had issued a toughly worded ruling that did just what everyone expected: it branded Microsoft an "oppressive" monopolist and laid the legal groundwork for imposing what could be draconian remedies in the next few months.
The first was the resignation last week of Joel Klein, head of the Justice Department's antitrust division and the man who began the relentless legal pursuit of Microsoft that ended victoriously for the government in June, when Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson called for the company to be broken in two.
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