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Microsoft Flouting DOJ Settlement?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the par-for-the-course dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to the Washington Post, Microsoft is not adhering to the terms of its deal with the DOJ. Specifically, there are allegations that it is "trying to license key pieces of its technology at inflated rates" and "thwarting its antitrust settlement with the federal government". They're charging $100,000 just to see technical info about their communication protocols, and you only get $50,000 back if you decide you don't want to license them. Whoda thunk?"

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  1. Re:Wrong Story Came Up by TamMan2000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I submitted that story too, and had it promptly rejected... oh well...

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  2. Yes, he will. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The Enron scandal flourished under Clinton, but ended under the Bush administration.

  3. Re:Well... by Lord+Kholdan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I guess Ferrari is discriminating against them too?

  4. Re:gosh by boogy+nightmare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    bloody good point that person...

    i remember learning how to programme from sinclair user magazine, programming an entire programme in one sigle session and then discovering it did not work and then spending twice as long debugging it.. and then slamming the tape in and

    save "my progamme" line 10 so it ran automatically

    as theres a stroll down memory lane

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  5. Re:gosh by Cpt_Kirks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, like they're going to last that long.

    I still think IBM will stomp on SCO like the roach that they are.

  6. Re:gosh by CharlieG · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Punchcards - pencil fill in ones at that. The reader was hooked to a HP1000e, but we were seriously timeshared. You would submit your deck, and get it back the next day. But it was cool, because you actually got to run a COMPUTER program. I have a nice circuit board at home that is a 8 bit memory. Replace price was in the hundreds of dollars. All descrete components

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