Microsoft Flouting DOJ Settlement?

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?"

Comments

damn

[Anonymous Coward]

tp! ...

Wrong Story Came Up

[moehoward]

Isn't the story about hydrogen fuel cells possibly being dangerous to the ozone layer a bit more newsworthy for slashdotters than this tripe?

Give me a break. Slashdot is going seriously overboard in Microsoft bashing. This is such a non-story that it is almost embarassing.

Re:Wrong Story Came Up

[TamMan2000]

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

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Yes, he will.

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Dear yatest5

[yatest5]

Go for it man, I love virgins.

GOATSEGUY - I LOVE YOU!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Long live the goat!!

...get in line motherfuckers and have some respect.

First Ninnle Post!

[Anonymous Coward]

Fsck Micro$oft!

Switch to Ninnle Linux today!

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And the Halliburton Scandal is still going strong

[burgburgburg]

Never ending no-bid guaranteed price+profit contracts (with the price set by Halliburton at whatever they say it is) for providing food, transport, services to the Armed forces and fixing and administering the Iraqi oil wells.

the solution to corporatism: help to save america

[Anonymous Coward]

http://unbrandamerica.org/home.html

In the coming months a black spot will pop up everywhere . . . on store windows and newspaper boxes, on gas pumps and supermarket shelves. Open a magazine or newspaper - it's there. It's on TV. It stains the logos and smears the nerve centers of the world's biggest corporations.

This is the mark of the people who don't approve of Bush's plan to control the world, who don't want countries "liberated" without UN backing, who can't stand anymore neo-con bravado shoved down their throats.

This is the mark of the people who want the Kyoto Protocol for the environment, who want the International Criminal Court for greater justice, who want a world where all nations, including the U.S.A., are free of weapons of mass destruction.

This is our pledge:

Because my country has sold its soul to corporate power,
Because consumerism has become our national religion,
Because we've forgotten the true meaning of freedom,
And because patriotism now means agreeing with the president,
I pledge to do my duty . . . and take my country back.

Re:mE am BRAzIL!

[Anonymous Coward]

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Session Close: Sun Apr 02 18:57:50 2000
Here we took a short break from this exhausting interview.

Session Start: Sun Apr 02 19:39:35 2000
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Re:Well...

[Lord Kholdan]

I guess Ferrari is discriminating against them too?

Re:gosh

[boogy nightmare]

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

Re:gosh

[Cpt_Kirks]

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

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

Re:gosh

[CharlieG]

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

Duh

[Anonymous Coward]

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