IP: Microsoft competitors claim WinXP is another antitrust violation

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Been there before :-) djf


> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:57:34 -0400
> To: politech () politechbot com
> From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>




> ProComp, a group funded by Microsoft's competitors, has published a white 
> paper accusing MS of more antitrust wrongdoing:
> http://www.procompetition.org/headlines/04_whitepaper.pdf
>
> Press coverage:
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010426/tc/tech_microsoft_player_dc_1.html
> > WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp.'s rivals on Thursday accused the 
> > company of continuing to flout U.S. antitrust laws by tying the latest 
> > version of its media player software into its new Windows XP operating system.
>
> More on ProComp:
> http://www.mccullagh.org/cgi-bin/photosearch.cgi?name=pettit
> http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=procomp
>
> Another view by The Boston Globe's Hiawatha Bray:
> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/116/business/Awestruck_by_Microsoft+.shtml
>
> And an unrelated but hilarious ICANN movie (perhaps the first!):
> http://www.paradigm.nu/icann/icannstage.html
>
> -Declan



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