Justice Probes New Microsoft Complaint
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| The U.S. Justice Department is investigating a complaint alleging that
| Microsoft has violated the antitrust settlement it reached with the federal
| government in 2002, according to a court filing discussed at a hearing
| Tuesday.
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| Aaron D. Hoag, a government attorney, declined, saying the complaining
| company has requesting it not be identified.
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| [...]
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| Shares of Microsoft dropped 72 cents, or 2.6 percent, to close at $26.72 on
| the Nasdaq Stock Market. Shares of Apple fell $1.47, or 1.6 percent, to
| $88.40.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070313/microsoft_antitrust.html?.v=2
A lot of companies calling out antitrust recently, in protest against
monopoly abuse (e.g. VMWare, Adobe, IBM, Symantec, McAfee, Google, Apple).
What about DRM, JPEG2000/HD, and OEM 'chokehold'?
Why is the complaint filed anonymously? Are they scared of being identified?
Would they be 'punished' or retaliated against? This is reminiscent of the
articles below.
Related:
http://slated.org/bbc_microsoft_bias
What happened to the guts?
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| Of one thing I am fairly certain. Microsoft all but eliminated
| mainstream software competition. As a result, Microsoft became
| the primary source of advertising revenue for mainstream publications.
| You don't bite the hand that feeds you. So instead of publishing
| issues calling for a worldwide boycott of Vista because it focuses
| more on what you can't do than what you can do, you see special
| editions praising Vista as the greatest advancement in computing
| since Windows 95. Granted we all know that Windows 95 was a dog
| from day one, but by the 90s, the mainstream press had already
| become rampant with Microsoft sycophants and they pushed Windows
| 95 like it was the second coming.
|
| [...]
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| In short, I'd love to see a mainstream publication become an
| advocate for the consumer once again.
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| As noted above, there are exceptions, including Linux Journal,
| most other FOSS-centered publications and even The Register.
| But we're the little guys.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000173
Dan Rather: Journalism has 'lost its guts'
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| To longtime CBS broadcaster Dan Rather, American journalism in recent
| years "has in some ways lost its guts."
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| I do not exclude myself from this criticism... By and large, so
| many journalists--there are notable exceptions--have adopted
| the go-along-to-get-along (attitude)," he said.
|
| [...]
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| "In many ways," said Rather to loud applause, "what we in journalism
| need is a spine transplant."
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http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6166528.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Bill Gates lends cash to buy newspapers - $350 million to MediaNews
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| Gates involvement has been very behind the scenes. In fact many of
| those involved in the deal didn'teven know he was one of the investors.
| It was carried out through the Gates Foundation, the world's largest
| philanthropy outfit.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33849
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