{"id":580,"date":"2004-10-02T08:15:53","date_gmt":"2004-10-02T08:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=580"},"modified":"2004-10-02T08:15:53","modified_gmt":"2004-10-02T08:15:53","slug":"insecure_browsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Insecure Browsing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/opinion\/story\/1686331p-7930186c.html\">Andrew Chin<\/a> on missed opportunities in US v Microsoft:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>But freedom of contract is expressly limited by the antitrust laws. The courts therefore had authority to order Microsoft to license and distribute its software so as to offer a neutral choice of Web browser. Microsoft could easily have done so without undoing its programming innovations.<br \/>\nInstead, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals created a special antitrust immunity to license Windows and other &#8220;platform software&#8221; under contractual terms that destroy freedom of competition.<br \/>\nThe security hazards that have resulted from Microsoft&#8217;s unredressed actions are serious, and already being felt. Equally serious, but perhaps less tangible, is the D.C. Circuit&#8217;s waste of judicial resources in issuing precedential opinions that fallaciously treat Microsoft&#8217;s flagship software product as consisting of lines of code rather than intellectual property rights. The courts have missed a golden opportunity to affirm the freedom to compete in the information age.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chin is an associate professor at the UNC School of Law and a former legal extern to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, the trial judge in U.S. v. Microsoft.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/IE--embraced%2C+extended%2C+extinct%3F\/2100-1032_3-5388831.html?part=rss&#038;tag=5388831&#038;subj=news.1032.5\">Related Article<\/a> on Microsoft&#8217;s now dormant and flawed Internet Explorer browser. (use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\">firefox<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Chin on missed opportunities in US v Microsoft: But freedom of contract is expressly limited by the antitrust laws. The courts therefore had authority to order Microsoft to license and distribute its software so as to offer a neutral choice of Web browser. Microsoft could easily have done so without undoing its programming innovations. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}