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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. I wonder... by delirium28 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    how long it will take before the site experiences a Slashdot effect.

    Seriously though, this is all well and good, but what's to stop users from logging onto the site and reporting violations out of spite? Do they really expect people to believe that they will examine every alleged violation, or is this simply a way for the government to pacify those that believe the judgement was too lienient?

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    Who is John Galt?
  2. Complaint form's final (upload) field... by rklrkl · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Yes, not only is the site running IIS on W2K, but the final (upload) field on the complaint form is most amusing.

    Whilst the prior three fields give you 8K of plain text which to fill in, the final field only lets you upload in one of two proprietary closed-source word processor document formats (one of which is ironically Microsoft's) - nope, you're not allowed to upload SXW format (Open Office), plain text or even PDF files ! Also note that you're allowed a 1000K upload too, thanks to the bloatedness of the two formats they do allow...

  3. Left them a comment... by rongage · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you go to http://www.microsoft-antitrust.gov/contactus.asp you will find that they have a nice little web form for commentary to them.

    For example, my comment to them...

    It's pretty darned ironic that your department has chosen to host a website on Microsoft Windows 2000 and Internet Information Services. Was this a deliberate choice on your part to help demonstrate the monopoly power of Microsoft, or did you genuinely no know that you had several no-cost (acquisition wise) choices available to you?
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    Ron Gage - Westland, MI