United States v. Microsoft was a set of consolidated civil actions filed against Microsoft Corporation on May 18, 1998 by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and 20 U.S. states.

Because civil law lacks the ability to control big corporation abusing its intellectual property in destroying the free fair market order, we need other regulations.

But Matthew Francis of URS Corporation and a member of the civil engineering society's tsunami subcommittee, said that education may have been the critical factor.