The History of Microsoft's Anti-Competitive Behavior

jabjoe writes "Groklaw is highlighting a new document from the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (PDF) about the history of Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior. Quoting: 'ECIS has written it in support of the EU Commission's recent preliminary findings, on January 15, 2009, that Microsoft violated antitrust law by tying IE to Windows. It is, to the best of my knowledge, the first time that the issue of Microsoft's patent threats against Linux have been framed in a context of anti-competitive conduct.' The report itself contains interesting quotes, like this one from Microsoft's Thomas Reardon: '[W]e should just quietly grow j++ share and assume that people will take more advantage of our classes without ever realizing they are building win32-only java apps.' It also has the Gates 1998 Deposition."

Comments

Re:And now for the cloud

[Burkin]

Posted Anonymously for a reason.

Fear of a chair to the head?

Re:Stacker / DBLSpace / Lawsuit

[awshidahak]

Remember in 1989 the Stacker disk compression fiaso?

I wasn't around slashdot back then you insensitive clod!

Microsoft Monopoly Board Game!

[MrKaos]

Come to think of it this is a great idea for a board game, we could call it M$ Monopoly. Goes like this:

Everyone get's to be their own Microsoft. Instead of "GO!" you would have "START!", instead of "Jail" you would have "Court" and you would actually get to use goto's. Instead of Money you would have 'Bills' and instead of a dice you would throw little chairs.

The person with the most money get's paid by every other player. When you land on someone else's property, you get to sue them if you have more money or visa-versa. To win the game you are involved in the most lawsuits and have all the money.

I know exactly what photos would be on the front.