Sure, you say “officers” but you mean stockholders don’t you. You want to pick Bill Gates’ pockets.
Bill Gates engaged in illegal behavior. Microsoft had a monopoly position in the software they sold and engaged in unfair business practices because of that.
I don't want to pick Bill Gates' pocket because I envy him, or because I am too lazy to make my own money. I want him and his company to be punished because they violated the law, and because I want other companies who find themselves in similar positions to be deterred from engaging in similar practices.
I would like for there to be a truly free market. A market where I as a consumer and as an employee have true choices. I don't want to find out that the reason I wasn't able to purchase a Dell computer with Linux for years after Linux was a viable operating system was because Microsoft refused to sell it's operating system to Dell at a reasonable price unless Dell agreed to sell no other operating system but Microsoft's.
In the short run, in a dreamy idealized free market system that dewy-eyed libertarians believe in, any company should be able to do anything they can get away with.
In a true free market the short term decisions of scumbag corporate whores need to be weighed against the long term goal of keeping the market free of artificial barriers to entry.
Microsoft was putting up all sorts of artificial barriers to entry. They were not competing by making better software, but by using their clout to keep their competitors out of the market. Or else they were giving away things free, that they could afford to take a loss on, in order to prevent companies from making a go of it by selling similar products at a reasonable price.
Microsoft should have been punished regardless of what I think or want to happen. Its only because I expect a little justice every once in a while in a country that used to be based on the rule of law, but evidently is based on the rule of lobbying.