The Microsoft case. Hmm. So, let's assume that Judge Jackson's remedial measures were excessively harsh to the convicted felon (vis. Microsoft). Thus, his punishment was thrown out by a higher court (not, note, his verdict, which stands - Microsoft is still a convicted monopolist).
It now appears that Judge Kollar-Kotelly's alternative measures are so woefully lenient that Microsoft might be considered, on balance, to have got away scot free. For heaven's sake, they're even policing their own sentence!
Presumably, one guesses, this verdict too will be overturned on appeal, and something more reasonably harsh might be substituted. In another couple of years' time. But somehow, I suspect this is the end of it, and that Microsoft has won.
[sigh]
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