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California Microsoft Settlement
Lord Prox writes "From news.com.com: A California judge on Friday gave preliminary approval to a landmark settlement under which Microsoft will pay $1.1 billion to settle a class-action suit that claimed it overcharged consumers for Windows.
More Townsend and Townsend and Crew is info from the law firm here. Also note... you get vouchers in settlement good for buying computer related items, not just Microsoft products and/or can be traded and converted to cash!"
California agrees to a ten year, $10 billion Microsoft contract.
A California judge on Friday gave preliminary approval to a landmark settlement under which Microsoft will pay $1.1 billion to settle a class-action suit that claimed it overcharged consumers for Windows
I pirated a copy and feel ripped off !!
They didn't want to risk having to deal with a Governor who's also a Terminator.
Soon all corporate payouts will be in the form of court settlements. Payroll and stock options and dividends will go the way of Jury trials. This is more efficient anyway, because courts can set standards for how much each person should get, instead of having different salaries set abitrarily.
I think this forward thinking of MS. Other corporations are going arrive in the slave-holding court mandated christmas ham model only to find MS already there.
"Get Adobe to port linux to photoshop."
;) Though, the I hear the GNU team did make an operating system out of a text-editor, once...so an image manipulator may not be all that hard! ;)
I think that would take a little more than a billion dollars
(This post is funny. If you don't think it is, buy yourself a sense of humor.)
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California's in the hole and Microsoft is evil. I say we kill two birds with one stone. California's budget shortfall is 30-40 billion dollars; Microsoft has about that much in cash. We'll never get it just by settling lawsuits $1 billion at a time, especially when 2/3 of it isn't real money anyway.
Everyone meet tomorrow afternoon in Sacramento, in front of the State Capitol. We'll then caravan up I-5 to Redmond. There's more of us than there are of them. We can take them. Once we get the money, we'll take it back to Sacramento and use it to balance the budget.
Who's with me?
Remember the days when Republicans were the party of fiscal responsibility?
"...can be traded and converted to cash"
Better hope the settlement money can't be converted into campaing funds!
(Inside joke. You have to be a Californian to understand what Gray Davis is going to do with that money.)
Cool, man. When the tobacco companies were getting sued left and right a decade ago, they should have negotiated a settlement where they donated cigarettes to schools.
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Isn't it great when you're so rich you can break the law, then simply reimburse the people you scammed when, sometimes, they notice and react ?
That's what makes this country great. When the poor and downtrodden realize that the rich can break the law with impunity, then they too can reach the American Dream. All you have to do is give up the penny-ante crimes like liquor store holdups and start importing your own boatloads of drugs instead. Your children will grow up to be Senators and Presidents.
It's simple: I demand prosecution for torture.