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Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Creates Political Storms to Get its Way

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Europe and U.S. try to calm storm over Microsoft
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Majoras had a hand in fashioning the U.S. remedies against Microsoft in 2001 
>| after the company was found to have violated U.S. antitrust law. The U.S. 
>| remedies requiring limited licensing of some Microsoft connection 
>| information--far less than the Europeans--won approval from U.S. courts. But 
>| some states have criticised the U.S. sanctions as ineffective.    
>| 
>| Majoras said Europeans and Americans need to aim for "cooperation and 
>| enhanced discussion" about their antitrust treatment of individual company 
>| behaviour.   
> `----
> 
> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6210508.html
> 

So Majoras was one of the people who'd been bought off last time around,
then.  Looks like he's being rolled-out again in order to try to achieve
the same thing.

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