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Microsoft Drags Feet with Settlement Claims
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft is holding up compensation claims from a quarter of million Californians in order to punish Lindows.com, and to coerce the class action plaintiffs 'into siding with Microsoft against its Lindows competitor,' according to a court filing seen by The Register. The document, filed on 21st November by Townsend and Townsend and Crew, lead counsel for the Californian class action consumers, points out that none of the claims being held up was actually filed via Lindows.com, yet Microsoft has held them 'hostage' for over two months."
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Uhh.. first of all, Microsoft does have to follow the law. Why else would they have to abide by this 1.1 billion dollar settlement? Also, the DoJ had them backed in a corner for awhile, and they might be in some trouble again, because the previous settlement in that antitrust lawsuit hasn't worked. They've had other antitrust lawsuits brought against them, too, and have lost in many cases. Also, Eolas has them backed in a corner on a patent claim. Clearly the law does apply to MS. Grow up. Your anti-MS bullshit has no place in a reasonable discussion on this issue.
Just desserts. Microsoft has made a habit of making phony claims against people for years. What do you think happens if their hired goons, the BSA, pull an audit on your company and your sysadmin can't produce all the requisite documentation to "prove" they had a "right" to use the software on every single machine found? Will Microsoft's henchmen say, "oh well, I'm sure you bought them all properly; we understand it's a pain to keep all this paperwork for things that cost just a hundred dollars"? Yeah, right.
The only bad thing about false claims is that if the total claims exceed the settlement limit, then the people with real claims will get smaller amounts, if I understand the settlement correctly.
You can't steal from a theif.
As many people around the world who blindly buy
Microsoft (due to their foul ways and market
influence), the few that may wrongfully make a
claim hardly compensates for the millions that
would if they had a clue.
> They took the money they were loosing...So they kept loosing money
I'm a CPA, and I've never heard that accounting term. Just what do you mean by loose money? How is some money tighter than other money?