CPT comment on DOJ/MS settlement

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

Brief comment by Jamie Love, Consumer Project on Technology, on DOJ/MS
settlement

  This is a welcome first step.  It was very important to establish that
the MS browser, which also runs on a MacIntosh, is an application, and
not a component of the OS.  This was a narrow, but important issue.  We
urge DOJ to proceed with a broader antitrust case dealing with other
anticompetitive issues, such as the following:

1.  We encourage the government to require Microsoft to address
interoperability issues, by requiring Microsoft to provide *timely* and
adequate disclosure of program APIs, and to eliminate unequal access to
backdoors which MS's own programers use, and to support certain open
standards.

2.  We encourage the government to ensure that the OS is sufficiently
open that OEMs, ISPs and computer users can chose among competitive user
interfaces and content menus and navigation tools.

   Jamie Love
   love@cptech.org
   202.387.8030

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James Love
Consumer Project on Technology
P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
love@cptech.org | http://www.cptech.org
202.387.8030, fax 202.234.5176