22 Quotes by William Kovacs

What this means is the suit will not go on for 20 years,

The thing the dealmakers tend to look at is: 'what did the guy ahead of me in line have to pay to get through?'

Norris, more than anyone else, showed how difference in royalty terms reinforced Microsoft's control over equipment suppliers,

This is the first time going back to 1890 in which the key assets of the company to be broken up consist of human beings and ideas. Who can predict what these people will do, and how effective the entities will be?

It shows the ruling is basically going to be the government's proposed order, consisting of a two-way split and interim remedies.

Each side will be describing a different planet.

In the modern era, these cases have been very hard to win and the government's track record is very mixed,

His antipathy toward the defendant is apparent, ... Jackson was careless in the order last fall when he issued the injunction without a hearing. He can't do that again here.

I do think a restructuring of Microsoft would be more complex. That could be a new challenge.