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[News] Iowa-Microsoft Antitrust Transcripts Available Online

Comes v. Microsoft

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| This trial is taking place in the:
| 
| Iowa District Court for Polk County,
| 
| 500 Mulberry Street, Des Moines, Iowa, 50309
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http://www.iowaconsumercase.com/

Here are some bits which relate to Linux:

Jury Hears Microsoft Competition Suit

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| She said she'll show that the company used its monopoly power
| to exclude competition and control prices and that it conspired with
| other companies to restrain trade, maintaining what she called a
| chokehold on software competitors and computer manufacturers.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061201/microsoft_trial.html?.v=1

And just earlier today...

Dell's secret Linux fling

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| Dell's love affair with Linux is a clandestine affair these days,
| conducted in secret, away from disapproving eyes. But now the pair
| have been spotted in China.
| 
| When Michael Dell first saw the web-footed beauty, he fell head over
| heels. Six years ago Dell pledged a series of strategic investments
| in Linux companies, including Eazel and Red Hat. The romance
| attracted the disapproval of Microsoft however, and barely lasted
| weeks. Very quietly, Dell dumped the bird.
| 
| It later emerged that Microsoft's OEM enforcer Joachim Kempin had
| promised Steve Ballmer that he'd be putting the screws on PCb
| uilders, or "hitting the OEMs harder" in his words.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/09/dell_linux_china/

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