I love technologically incompetent people attempting to say useful things about the IT space - here's Judge Penfield Jackson (of the MS case that settled in 2001) waxing nostalgic:

"Windows is an operating system monopoly, and the company's business strategy was to leverage Windows to achieve a comparable dominion of all software markets," Jackson said. "Nothing has changed, to my observation, in the five years that have elapsed since my decision...Microsoft has won the browser war in the United States. Netscape Navigator, if it is still available at all, has only a small fraction of the browser market."

Hey Penfield - while IE still commands a huge market share, the leading edge has been adopting Firefox for quite some time now - and Safari (on Apple) is showing up more than you might think. The market responded while Jackson was blathering. And in case anyone is still wondering what he was really after, have a look at this:

Jackson, who is now an attorney at the Jackson and Campbell firm, used Tuesday's appearance to fire back at the appeals court. "When the reversal of my consent-decree case rulings on the contempt petition finally came down, it became apparent to me that I faced a very real prospect of reliving the 'trench warfare' experiences of my colleagues who had handled the AT&T and the IBM antitrust cases."

He wanted his shining moment in the sun. Instead, he got more than his 15 minutes. Thank goodness he's not on the bench anymore.