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[News] Microsoft's Criminal Activity Against Linux Can Earn Them More Punishment

  • Subject: [News] Microsoft's Criminal Activity Against Linux Can Earn Them More Punishment
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 21:44:23 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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It's about time: a return to anti-trust enforcement

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| As many of you know, I was a witness in the Microsoft antitrust remedy trial 
| of 2001, and one of the specific abuses to which I testified was my sense 
| that Microsoft threatened Red Hat's OEM partners, causing Dell to abruptly 
| cancel a major Linux-based initiative only months after it had started.    
| 
| In that trial, Judge Kollar-Kotelly specifically struck the part of my 
| testimony describing Microsoft's actions toward Dell as "retaliatory".  
| Unfortunately the evidence of Comes v. Microsoft had not yet been developed, 
| where it was demonstrated that Microsoft specifically said "we should whack  
| [Dell]" and "we [should] be quite prescriptive in our investments with Dell 
| relative to the competitive threats we see with Linux". Thus, while the 
| evidence in the courtroom the day I testified may not have fully supported 
| the statements I made, contemporaneous facts developed in others cases showed 
| positively that Microsoft continued to abuse their monopoly power in ways 
| that Microsoft denied that day.       
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http://www.opensource.org/node/432


Related:

Crimes Microsoft Gets Away With - So Far

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| News publications are cautious about making accusations, and because of that,
| some nasty acts of Microsoft are essentially being erased from the record.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft convinced Baystar Capital to put $50 Million dollars into SCO's
| lawsuit against IBM and other Open Source users, and promised to "backstop"
| Baystar's investment if SCO lost money, according to this sworn testimony.
| But I'm told that one person's testimony, even sworn testimony, isn't proof.
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http://technocrat.net/no-cache/d/2008/7/30/46981
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