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States and DoJ Divided On Microsoft Antitrust Success

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-better-now dept.

Rob writes "Computer Business Review is reporting that the US Department of Justice and five States have declared themselves satisfied with the antitrust enforcement efforts taken against Microsoft despite a further seven States maintaining they have had 'little or no discernible impact in the marketplace.' While the US DoJ and five States — New York, Louisiana, Maryland, Ohio, and Wisconsin (The New York Group) — reported that the final judgments have succeeded in increasing competition to the benefit of consumers, seven States making up the California Group are not convinced."

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  1. You were expecting...? by clang_jangle · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The nature of our current government makes a mockery of the FTC and anti-trust regulations. How can we reasonably expect anti-trust regulation from a federal government which is almost entirely composed of corporate henchmen?

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  2. Well. by Renraku · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Who do you turn to when the courts and states themselves are playing corporate favoritism? Can you sue the state, or is it time to bring out the soap box/ballot box/ammo box?

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  3. Re:Oddly enough... by rtb61 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    OK. Lets add blatant lying about xbox fault rates, and defective design in order to extend their monopoly. Then just a few weeks ago paying off one of the studios to drop blu-ray. Then there are all the WGA lies about it working in the face of continual failures. Then the advertising about performance and stability of vista just a few weeks before they supply a performance and stability service pack. Add to that cheating on their taxes by off shoring patent royalties. Lets see, there are the crazy claims that M$ can use GPLv3 code with out being bound by GPLv3. Also there was the mother of all adware patents that uses "context data" from your hard drive to show you advertisements and "apportion and credit advertising revenue" to ad suppliers in real time. There was also that whole blatant blue jay patent theft thing.

    Yeah, I know that's not a full year, in fact I got sick of searching /. just back to july, if you want to find the rest of the disgusting B$ behaviour coming out of redmond for the nine months prior to that look for yourself ;).

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