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Microsoft Subpoenas Thrown out of Court

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the take-your-business-elsewhere dept.

liliafan writes "Following Microsoft's attempt to subpoena documents through US courts, relating to their ongoing anti-trust case in the UK, the judge in California has thrown the case out of court citing: 'As a matter of comity, this court is unwilling to order discovery when doing so will interfere with the European Commission's orderly handling of its own enforcement proceedings.' as his reasoning."

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  1. As one of the original programmers at Microsoft... by schoolsucks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This makes me quite sad. These days I don't work with Microsoft much, I am focusing more on open source projects. Reading news like this makes me sad.

  2. well by mlehman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that judge is the man.

  3. Re:Ah, the backdoor approach. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sure, you cant sue to stop Linux from being made, someone will always be behind the scenes, like the script kiddies and crackers in windows. But they can sue big corps, which will put a big dent in any uptake of Linux (especially if they sue anyone prepacking Linux onto computers). But, if they can win a case against a developer, it will still put fear into a lot of people, but its not like its to bad, there is always BSD (untill that gets sued for patents to :( ), and its not like most people use Linux, they use the applications that run on X that runs on Linux or GNU libraries (which means its not hard for people to which to BSD, just inconveinent)

  4. Re:Queue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is actually very much on topic. Sorry.

  5. Re:Queue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can't you fucking idiot assholes even READ?! They said this was ON-TOPIC!

    assholes

  6. Re:Ah, the backdoor approach. by XMilkProject · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There was no comity when Google obeyed China's laws.

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