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> Now that Micoshaft corporation has been done for offences
> committed in 2004, its time to begin again with more
> anti-trust/monopoly issues as it applies today
>
> 1. MisUse of proxies to patent troll and spread FUD over competing
> operating systems must be terminated with immediate effect.
>
> 2. MisUse of asstroturfers to create an artificial ecosystem with
> unrealistic halucinatory take on the world must be curtailed to zero.
>
> 3. Locking out competing OS driver developers thorugh agreements
> with companies in exchange for money or orders must be terminated
> with immediate effect.
>
> 4. The buying up of competitors and eliminating them must stop 100%.
> If you are prepared to open source the code, then its less of
> a problem.
>
> 5. The corrupting of trade bodies like ISO shall never take place again.
>
> 6. The mis-selling of under-developed OSes with blatant lies is
> to be 100% forbidden.
>
> 7. Automatic patches that break computers must be paid for.
>
> 8. No more back handers to third parties like PC vendors to subsidise
> their loss making operations against hard working
> companies with cheaper or equally or better priced products.
>
> 9. Transparency in all monopoly related signing of agreements that
> adversely affects choice in the chosen field.
>
> Could go on..
Forget about illegal business practises, corruption of standards bodies,
misuses, abuse, deception, illegal contracts, technical, sabotage, and
antitrust. There is outright fraud going on at Microsoft, e.g.:
Ecuador Tax Agency Closes Microsoft Branch Offices For 7 Days
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| "We have twice requested balances, payment reports and complete tax
| information, but the company hasn't given it to us, so in accordance with our
| laws we have proceeded with the closure," the SRI official in charge of the
| proceeding said.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200710041610DOWJONESDJONLINE000810_FORTUNE5.htm
Microsoft Office raid in Hungary
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| "Such behavior could lead to the exclusion of competitive products from
| the market and violate European Union rules, according to the authority
| known as the GVH."
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http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/26/ap3957835.html
For this, they could quickly go to prison.
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