Microsoft To Pay IBM In Antitrust Settlement

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Microsoft To Pay IBM In Antitrust Settlement

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 1, 2005 @04:53AM from the quite-a-payout dept.

Pankaj Arora writes "A settlement has been reached in IBM's private antitrust case against Microsoft. According to the terms of the settlement, Microsoft will pay IBM $775 million cash in addition to $75 million in credit. From the article, 'The settlement resolves all discriminatory pricing and overcharging claims stemming from the U.S. government's mid-1990s antitrust case against Microsoft, the companies said in a statement. The settlement also resolves most other IBM antitrust claims, including those related to its OS/2 operating system and SmartSuite products. IBM's claims of harm to its server hardware and server software businesses are not covered by the settlement, however.'"

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On A Side Note by Cylix · 2005-07-01 04:59 · Score: 4, Funny

Windows license costs have soared dramatically.

When asked what was the primary reason for the cost inflation, a Microsoft spokesman was quoted as saying, "Were going to fuck IBM every little bit we can."

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Re:What about everyone else? by ZephyrXero · 2005-07-01 05:01 · Score: 2, Funny

doubtful...

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$775 million cash is in the form of vouchers by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-01 05:01 · Score: 2, Funny

For XP upgrades, SQL server and quite a few licenses for MS BOB which the Notes team will use as a UI guide. IBM will be pissed, but the lawyers mad a few bucks.
Good... by HellYeahAutomaton · 2005-07-01 05:02 · Score: 2, Funny

Now IBM can rehire some of the 13000 workers it just laid off.
Harm to servers by VeganBob · 2005-07-01 05:05 · Score: 2, Funny

IBM's claims of harm to its server hardware and server software businesses are not covered by the settlement, however.

That is provided free-of-charge by Microsoft Windows Server.

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Re:Translated into English... by jd · 2005-07-01 05:16 · Score: 2, Funny

$75 million dollars of X-Boxes later, IBM's workforce turnout drops to 0, IBM goes bust. Still helps Microsoft! :)

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Yeah! by the+eric+conspiracy · 2005-07-01 05:43 · Score: 2, Funny

So my cheque for my failed DeskStar drives is going to be funded by Microsoft. Shweeeeeet!
Re:Microsoft wins again by Sloppy · 2005-07-01 06:15 · Score: 2, Funny

And having IBM who has rather recently and somewhat famously embraced Linux suddenly get $75M of free MS stuff is a huge win for MS.
And in other news, IBM employees are reporting that they all love their new mice.

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IBM suing Microsoft for anti-trust? by JChung2006 · 2005-07-01 07:26 · Score: 2, Funny

Does this strike anybody else with historical perspective as ironic? Isn't IBM the company that tried to put every other mainframe computer company out of business in their heyday with their business practices? In a parallel universe, all the Linux fanboys would be vilifying IBM and OS/2 (or perhaps Apple and MacOS), not Microsoft and Windows.