In war, all is fair. Sports is full of rules. Playing fields are always level. Battlefields are rarely level. Sports is civilized.
Wars end with triumph and dominion or death and surrender.
In civilized cultures, business is not governed by rules of war. Microsoft failed because Judge Jackson, like the legal system that employs him, conceives competition in terms of sports, not war. There was no way Jackson could buy Microsoft's argument. There are rules for competition, especially between monopolies and less advantaged companies. Microsoft broke them.