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Microsoft Settlement
TheQuirk:
quote:Originally posted by Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
Petition for what?
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Yeah, what he said.
pkd_lives:
quote:Originally posted by lazygamer:
1)Wasn't this settled years ago?
2)What was the original "1337" punishment sought by the DOJ?
3)What is the neutered one?
4)Why did they back down?
5)This shit is now over right?
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1. Yes but the original settlement was appealed.
2. Various settlements were included, which basically stopped M$ from preventing any PC seller from removing M$ packages. And it broke M$ into 2 seperate companies - However you look at the original settlement it was crap. It was appealed by M$ and they won, so the nine states appealed the revised edition.
3. The decison is now that M$ cannot control what companies software the OEMs put on the M$ OS on the PC, M$ have to make parts of their API available earlier than expected. M$ now totally control WHO oversees their fulfilment of the settlement - it is required to be someone M$ will choose to employ.
4. Money is my guess.
5. NO. The nine states can and should appeal. There is the European cases still pending, which could see a totally different outcome, and could last years. And of course M$ have to follow the settlement. And of course there could be an entirely new case brought against M$, which could start it all again. If the information given under testemony was found inaccurate say that it is possible to remove IE then we could have a whole new trial.
[ November 02, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]
voidmain:
It doesn't matter what happens to them in the courts. Microsoft will be the cause of their own demise. It's inevitable with the path that they are on. I would rather see them go down on their own.
pkd_lives:
quote:Originally posted by void main:
It doesn't matter what happens to them in the courts. Microsoft will be the cause of their own demise. It's inevitable with the path that they are on. I would rather see them go down on their own.
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You are right, I feel.
Meanwhile more and more companies are being chewed up by M$, and it gets harder and harder to compete because there does not exist anything like a level playing field, and the courts are there to prevent this sort of thing, yet their incompetence to produce a result that in anyway alters the game is an insult to the Justice system, and means even fewer competitors because they now know that the courts will NOT protect them.
voidmain:
Yeah, but the trouble with litigation is it's too slow. Microsoft is so sneaky they are always one step ahead of tbe people bringing suit against them. By the time any punishment were to be handed out for a previous injustice it would no longer be a factor.
Luckily Microsoft is good at pissing people off. As soon as enough people are pissed off the flood gates will open and life will be good.
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