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IP: Ruling lets Iowans seek Microsoft refunds
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:48:23 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:45:50 -0400 To: <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: Ruling lets Iowans seek Microsoft refunds Dave - FYI and IP if you want......now if only more states would follow suit.......rf Ruling lets Iowans seek Microsoft refunds By FRANK SANTIAGO Register Staff Writer 06/13/2002 Thousands of Windows 98 users in Iowa could get $40 refunds from Microsoft Corp. after the Iowa Supreme Court reinstated a lawsuit Wednesday that alleges price fixing. Des Moines lawyer Roxanne Conlin, who represented Iowa consumers in the lawsuit, said the 5-2 opinion was the first antitrust ruling in any state that favored "indirect purchasers," in this case, consumers who bought the Windows 98 operating system or bought computers with Windows 98 installed. "What's most important here is that consumers have a direct remedy against violators of Iowa's antitrust law, when in most states they do not," Conlin said. "In capitalism, everybody has to follow the rules, and one of the rules is that you don't fix prices and you don't create a monopoly." <snip> http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4788993/18439267.html ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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