Good News: Microsoft Civl Suit Settlement Rejected in Court

[MonMotha]

[luau] Recycled Slashdot headlines: MonMotha thinks Warren spends too 
much time browsing SlashDot.

Recent postings to the luau mailing list have shown that Warren spends 
far too much time reading Slashdot.  He is often seen posting slashdot 
headlines to the mailing list.

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Just poking fun Warren.  You run a nice lug website and list :)
And I don't even have to pay for it, what a deal!

--MonMotha

Warren Togami wrote:

> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020111/tc/microsoft_privatesuits_dc_5.html
> 
> The proposed settlement that would have "punished" Microsoft by donating
> their own software along with a small amount of hardware to American schools
> was rejected by the judge.  I'm glad.  The terms of their settlement were
> rediculous... to name a few:
> 
> 1. Small amount of actual cash, while most of it being Microsoft's software.
> When you are a monopoly you can set any price...
> 2. They would have written off their punishment "donation" as tax
> deductable, meaning they wouldn't have really lost much money.
> 3. Not to mention the potential damage to competition... namely Apple.
> 
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