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!"

Comments

Re:Price of Windows

[neo]

Settlements rarely place blame, or the defendant has almost no reason to settle.

It's more likely that the settlement says nothing about why the money is being distributed.

Re:Convenient

[tiny69]

Cnet says : Two-thirds of the unclaimed money will go to California public schools in a mix of donated Microsoft software and cash grants."

I feel sorry for the students of the public schools in California. I was a student there myself over ten years ago. Everytime something like this comes down, the state pulls that much from what they give to the schools. When Loto first came around, all of the politicians stood behind it because of all the money that would be pumped into the school system. The next year when it came time to do the state budget, what ever amount of money that was being pumped into the schools from Loto was pulled out of the state budget for the school system and used elsewhere. When the amount that Loto was bringing in started to fluxuate, everyone cried foul. But the state didn't lift a finger. One year I remember being told by a teacher that the school didn't have anymore money to buy paper for the rest of the school year. And this was only a couple of months into the school year.

Those with money could care less what happens to the public school system because they send their kids to private schools.

Whenever something happens were "EXTRA" money goes to the school system, the schools never see it. The state will use that money as an excuse to withhold that amount during the next years budget. And the state wonders why they have one of the worse public school systems in the world....