District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson dealt Microsoft Corp. a significant blow in its ongoing antitrust trial yesterday by comparing the software company to John D. Rockefeller’s 19th century Standard Oil monopoly that was broken up by the U.S. government some 90 years ago.
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Antitrust Judge Likens Microsoft to Standard Oil
Posted by: Paul A. Greenberg and Chet Dembeck February 23, 2000 12:00 AMDistrict Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson dealt Microsoft Corp. a significant blow in its ongoing antitrust trial yesterday by comparing the software company to John D. Rockefeller’s 19th century Standard Oil monopoly that was broken up by the U.S. government some 90 years ago.