Good News: Microsoft Civl Suit Settlement Rejected in Court

Ronnie T Livingston rlivings at hawaii.edu
Fri Jan 11 19:53:03 PST 2002


arent these private suits different than the one microsoft has with the
U.S. govt?

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, MonMotha wrote:

> [luau] Recycled Slashdot headlines: MonMotha thinks Warren spends too
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> Recent postings to the luau mailing list have shown that Warren spends
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> Just poking fun Warren.  You run a nice lug website and list :)
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> Warren Togami wrote:
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> > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020111/tc/microsoft_privatesuits_dc_5.html
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> > 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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