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false cost of operating system diversity prevention
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 12:18:30 -0400
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 11:50:35 -0400 From: PLEASE PASS THIS ON without attribution Microsoft to Pay $23M in Settlement E-mail or Print this story 6 September 2003, 12:42pm ET By HELEN JUNG AP Business WriterSEATTLE (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. agreed Friday to pay $23.3 million to Be Inc. to settle an antitrust lawsuit that claimed the software giant negotiated deals with computer makers that cut out the smaller company's competing operating system.Microsoft admits no wrongdoing under the settlement. The company did not disclose further details.The lawsuit, filed in February 2002, is one of four private antitrust suits brought against Microsoft after a federal judge's ruling that Microsoft had acted as an illegal monopoly based on its dominance in desktop operating systems.<snip> http://finance.lycos.com/qc/news/story.aspx?story=35597618
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