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Microsoft, DoJ Reach Tentative Settlement

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sent-to-bed-without-dinner dept.

JeffMagnus writes: "MSNBC is reporting that the tentative settlement between Microsoft and the DoJ calls for a five-year consent decree between the government and Microsoft governing the company's conduct. A three person panel of independent experts will be created to review the companys' future activity." The New York Times appears to be the original source for the settlement stories; there's also an AP article.

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Informative

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  2. CALL YOUR ATTORNEY GENERAL!! by furry_wookie · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you don't think letting Microsoft get totally off for free, or the same thing they were let off with in 1995 which did zero good then,

    I suggest you call your own state attorney general and tell them not to give into this federal get-out-of-jail free card...

    CALL THEM THURSDAY MORNING FIRST THING AND TELL THEM!!

    Here is a site with the phone numbers for most all of the states aj offices..
    http://www.naag.org/about/aglist.cfm

    Here are the 18 states still involved as complantants in the case..

    Connecticut, Iowa and New York have generally been viewed as the three states championing the case. Also involved are California, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia.

    Also call California and New York because they have the most power and have been the 2 most outspoken against the results of this case so far..and call IOWA because Tom Miller the IOWA AG is the spokesman for all the 18 states involved.

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    -- Given enough time and money, Microsoft will eventualy invent UNIX.
  3. Re:And the Panel will be: by Paul+Komarek · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't trust Jobs, and really wouldn't want Larry Ellison on this panel (or Michael Dell, or Mike Cappelas, or ...). However, I have an idea of my own for one member of the panel: Monte Davidoff.

    Monte was one of the three authors of the famous Altair Basic that Gates and Allen get credit for. Monte evidently wrote the math routines. He's now a software and systems consultant (Alluvial Software). It appears he does works on several platforms, including Multics. ;-) Furthermore, Monte actually finished his mathematics degree at Harvard, unlike Bill Gates.

    He knows the business, and more importantly, he knows Bill.

    -Paul Komarek

  4. Re:Clinton Administration... by daniel_isaacs · · Score: 5, Informative
    Microsoft is an American company employing taxpayers and paying vast corporate taxes.

    Actually, MS didn't pay any taxes. I did, but they didn't.

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    - Dan I.