Good luck to the brave Mr. Andreesen and the companies he’s associated with. Let’s hope they fare better than previous liberal apostates who refused to bow down sufficiently to Democratic presidents.
For example, in 2000, Bill Clinton’s Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, which was soon thrown out of court. The lack of any legal wrongdoing on Microsoft’s part was inconsequential to the Clinton administration, whose interest was solely in punishing a company that did not comply as enthusiastically with its extortionate demands for support as its high-tech rivals.
Unfortunately, the filing of this bogus lawsuit touched off the bursting of the dot.com bubble, from which Silicon Valley has never fully recovered. Let’s hope the Obama mafioso are not as vengeful as Clinton’s were.
Look at the findings of fact in the Microsoft case. It's monopoly operation was full of illegalities.
The DC appeals court DID NOT overturn the findings of fact but did send the remedy to another judge, with an eye to a more limited scope than the trial judge's determination of a company breakup.
It was W's DOJ which dropped pursuit of a breakup in favor of a weak consent decree.