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Microsoft Critic Received $9.75m After Settlement

Posted by timothy on from the why-that's-coincidental dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Just this month, Microsoft paid almost $20 million to the Computer and Communications Industry Association to make an anti-trust lawsuit go away. FT.com has just revealed that *half* of that payment was pocketed by Ed Black, the president of CCIA and one of MS's fiercest opponents over antitrust issues. His payment was approved by the CCIA board, which includes Sun Microsystems, Yahoo and Oracle. And here's a quote from this article at Groklaw: Could this be why Nokia quit the CCIA right after the settlement was announced, saying matters were not handled "in the proper way"?"

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  1. OSDL and RedHat are CCIA members too by nathanh · · Score: 5, Informative
    His payment was approved by the CCIA board, which includes Sun Microsystems, Yahoo and Oracle.

    And OSDL and RedHat. Was the submitter trying to imply complicity between Sun and Microsoft by omitting those other members from that list?

  2. Re:Hmmm... by Slashamatic · · Score: 4, Informative
    Could this be an unwarranted inference on the part of the poster?
    It is a suggestion not an inference and a legitimate one at that.
  3. Re:Corruption by SorcererX · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nokia is not a Scandinavian country. Nokia is a Finnish company. Finland is not part of Scandinavia, Scandinavia is Norway, Sweden and Denmark. It is a common misinterpretation to consider Scandinavia the same as the "Nordic countries" which include Finland and Iceland. The term "Scandinavian" was created prior to Finland's independence from the Soviet Union.

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    Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
  4. Re:Corruption by LucidBeast · · Score: 4, Informative
    No no, Nokia is the second largest city in Finland formerly known as Espoo (my fair home town). There used to be a town called Nokia in Finland and some say it still exists, but like Santas village - nobody knows where it lays.

    Please keep buying Nokia phones and you help keep our city tax rate down.

    As for corruption. You can hardly buy a cup of coffee in Finland for your client without getting the local equivalent of IRS breathing down your neck.