Please, you are the one who is obviously off the deep end. Microsoft, be able to shutdown IBM, Oracle, Sun, and Novell, completely? Insane, they probably won't be able to shut a single one of them down.
Trying to claim IBM is sequestered is the funniest .... I've heard in a while. Even though everyone already knows this is a sham trail, Microsoft deserves the right to know what the charges are against them, so they can properly respond. You boys would be crying your eyes out endlessly if the court in Utah was taking secret evidence from SCO. It proves the EU is running a kangaroo court, and is actually earning Microsoft lots of points as the victim, not just here but overseas. No publicity is bad publicity, and MS is the king.
No one said Netscape would be reduced to rubble and left to try to rebuild. If MS wins based on these companies being forced to divulge these documents, it can leave these companies extremely vulnerable. It may take MS years, but they'd then at the bare minimum relegate all four to niche markets--much like Netscape was left.
So, it comes down to this: screw the principles of international business law and fair trade (both of which provide a foundation for capitalism to flourish) because Microsoft can't do anything wrong--and anything they do must be right.
So any court or body of law that attempts to make MS play by the rules is a kangaroo court, eh?
sarc Yeah, that sounds like justice to me /sarc.
The truth is that the EU caught MS red-handed and with its pants down. Their hand was stuck in the cookie jar. That is undeniable.
I don't know how else to put it, and there is no other logical explanation for your continued spinning.