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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."

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  1. Re:still better than the jews by Bigjeff5 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  2. Re:still better than the jews by V!NCENT · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  3. Re:ridiculous by JCSoRocks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashdot has articles? Is that one of the new features along with the whole AJAXy discussion system?

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