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Microsoft Class Action Suit Outcome: Indifference
Ec|ipse writes points out that only about 7 percent of eligible Californians have decided to take Microsoft up on their settlement claims resulting from a class action suit in that state, writing "Microsoft contends that it's because the software giant is so popular with consumers." Eclipse excerpts from the press release on Yahoo! (from Settlement Recovery Center, a company that "helps businesses participate in class action settlements"): "With only two weeks remaining until the January 8 deadline, fewer than one million claims have been filed, out of some fourteen million eligible, for a share of the $1.1 billion fund arising out of the Microsoft class action settlement in California."
Did it ever occur to them that every time we try signing up for the class action lawsuit, when we hit submit iexplorer.exe gives us a general protection fault? That seven percent must be the Mozilla users.
Your math is silly.
You forgot about the lawyers!
So it works out to about 10-14 bucks each.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
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In our small company's case, it just did not make economic sense to file this.
MS Windows OS licenses: 5 x $16 rebate = $80
MS Office Suite licenses: 1 x $29 rebate = $29
BSA raid on our company: 1 x -$10,000 fine = -$10,000
Total: -$9,891
I'm guessing there are a lot of other people and companies that this did not make economic sense for either.
As a matter of fact the car comparison is pulled from a Californian talk show (can't remember which one), that said that there was the lowest rate of car returns ever. Besides, for alternative OS saturation, I haven't seen a single Apple store in my county. And it's not exactly far from everything or unpopulated. As I said, I'm talking about southern california, not northern california. And I wonder why I'm even answering an anonymous coward.
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If you read further, you'll see that they explictly bold the line which says it does NOT have to be an Microsoft product. Basically, it's for hardware and software for a consumer desktop or laptop of any operating system.
So assuming they grant my several hundred dollars worth, I think I'm inclined to get myself a G5......
Not only does it crash some versions of explorer, but all the version of mozilla, firefox, konqueror, elinks, and lynx that I've tried fail to see the pdf link at all.
Nothing like an organization created to punish microsoft for monopolistic business practices that forces claimants to use a recent version of microsoft software to download their claim forms.
On a side note - here's an example of super nifty web design at its absolute worst. Instead of just making a plain old html page with links to a plain old pdf file, they've gone scripto-nutso and spent days designed a sophisticated document delivery system that fails at the single most basic task for which html was designed. Their web design team ought to be taken out in the woods and beaten to death with a stack of javascript manuals.