FC: Antitrust news: Nintendo, Dell's comments, airlines, MS rivals

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2559105,00.html

By Staff, ZDNet News
May 1, 2000 202 PM PT
OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. --
Michael Dell once again
backed Microsoft Corp. in
its antitrust travail, warning
Monday against
government interference in
the software industry and
calling antitrust laws
outdated.
"I don't think people in (the
U.S. Dept of) Justice have a good understanding of the
issues, and we don't want people in the government
architecting software," said Dell, CEO of Dell Computer
Corp. (Nasdaq DELL) and an ardent supporter of
presidential candidate George W. Bush.
[...]


http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-1777793.html

Nintendo under price-fixing investigation
By The Associated Press
April 28, 2000, 330 p.m. PT
BRUSSELS, Belgium--The European Commission today
opened an investigation into possible price-fixing by
Nintendo and seven video game distributors.
[...]


http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/travel/DailyNews/Baggage000424.html

N E W  Y O R K, April 24  Continental Airlines
Inc. said it plans today to file a federal antitrust
lawsuit against United Airlines and a Dulles
International Airport authority over newly
installed baggage-sizing templates.
[...]


http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1779367.html

Microsoft rivals savor the moment
By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
April 28, 2000, 615 p.m. PT

Although the wisdom of today's government proposals
remains an open question, competitors that have long
endured Microsoft's dominance could not help but relish
the moment.

Industry rivals responded with glee to the prospect of major
punishment for Microsoft. Many of them--notably Sun
Microsystems and several companies that sell the Linux
operating system--have offered advice on how to deal with the
situation.

[...]

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