Index of recently-filed documents in Microsoft antitrust case: http://ecfp.cadc.uscourts.gov/ And a note from Microsoft: >I wanted to let you know Microsoft has posted a response to Kormann & >Rubin's article on Passport that has been circulating on the Web recently. >The response http://passport.com/Press/RubinKormann.asp?lc=1033 addresses >each risk identified, and discusses the steps that Microsoft has taken to >resolve the issues. Several of the issues raised by Kormann and Rubin are no >longer valid because they are outdated (the article is two years old) and >have been addressed by product updates. EPIC, EFF, Junkbusters, Nader, etc. ask FTC to require that parts of Windows XP be rewritten before launch: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6886386.html?tag=owv http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/169063.html -Declan ********* Date: 15 Aug 2001 11:52:30 -0700 To: canucksat_private From: Sonia Arrison <arrisonat_private> Subject: CANUCKS: Microsoft Attacks Ridiculous to Canadians X-URL: Canucks is at http://www.canadiansintheus.com/ Microsoft is so swamped with complaints from its competitors that even law-loving Canadians think US legislators have let antitrust law get way out of hand. Recently, Microsoft bent to pressure from Kodak and agreed to "change the way its operating system reacts when someone connects a digital camera to their computer." Now (surprise, surprise) Sun Microsystems is complaining that "Microsoft won't include support for the company's Java software in Windows XP." What's with that? Is Microsoft supposed to take its competitor's interests into account everytime it makes a move. What a foreign concept for the competitive American spirit... Here's the best line from the article linked to below: "Is the U.S. government supposed to be in the business of designing computer operating systems? Should every complaint from a company like Kodak — which said Microsoft was giving its own image software precedence over the film company's — result in a press conference by some little-known senator or congressman speculating about the anti-trust implications? That appears to be the kind of never-never land we're in at the moment." http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate/D,D,D/20010814/wmath14?hub=homeBN&tf=tgam/realtime/fullstory.html&cf=tgam/realtime/config-neutral&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&slug=wmath14&date=20010814&archive=RTGAM&site=Front&ad_page_name=breakingnews -Sonia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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