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Microsoft-Antitrust.gov Opens for Public

Posted by michael on from the for-all-your-antitrust-needs dept.

prostoalex writes "The Attorney General of the State of California has opened up a Web site, dedicated to Microsoft antitrust violations. In 2002 Microsoft received 2 court judgements, one from California and 7 other states, another one from New York and nine other states. If you believe the company has violated the conditions stipulated in either of the statements, visit Microsoft-Antitrust.gov Web site. Notice that the site collects only the complaints related to two final judgements mentioned above."

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  1. Re:Nitpicking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    The US get's to use TLDs without country extensions for the same reason that the British get to use stamps without the name of their country on them - they invented the system.

  2. Re:Oh the irony. by gowen · · Score: 3, Informative
    First, they aren't complaining about anything.
    Well, they did. Thats how they got the settlement in the first place. The judgement is linked to from the website -- which is up so users can complaing about non-compliance with the judgement from the original complaint.

    Sheesh.

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  3. But they *are* leveraging the server market. by Compact+Dick · · Score: 4, Informative

    With Office 2003 and its Information Rights Management features, which rely on Windows 2003 Server to act as a secure repository for the authentication information.

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  4. Re:Oh the irony. by NightSpots · · Score: 3, Informative

    What's funny is this line:

    Fortunately, the CA attorney general understands the case better than the average "MS is bad" slash-drone.

    As a California resident, I can assure you that the California attorney general is interested in nothing more than pandering to special interests.

    Someone with enough money stepped forward to make this happen. I assume it was someone from either Sun or Oracle.

    Issues like the recent 'drivers license for anyone who has a piece of paper with a number on it'* bill show how little the powers-that-be in the state care about the wellbeing of the people.

    *: The bill was vetoed twice by the 'governor' because "it lacked safety measures". The bill that was eventually signed, in the last week that the governor facing recall was able to sign bills, had even fewer 'safety measures' than the previous, but was rushed through to pander to minority action groups.

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