More on MS case

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

  Subject: Re: Microsoft contempt charge
     Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 16:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
     From: gordoni@base.com (Gordon Irlam)
       To: Multiple recipients of list <upd-discuss@essential.org>
  
  
  Below would appear to be the relevant section of the 1995 consent
  decree which Microsoft is charged with having violated.
  
                                                  gordoni
  
  http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases3/micros0/0047.htm
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  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION
  CIVIL ACTION NO. 94-1564 (SS)
  FINAL JUDGMENT
  
  .. it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED as follows:
  
  DEFINITIONS
  
      (A) "Covered Product(s)" means the binary code of (1) MS-DOS 6.22,
          (2) Microsoft Windows 3.11, (3) Windows for Workgroups 3.11,
          (4) predecessor versions of the aforementioned products, (5)
          the product currently code-named "Chicago," and (6) successor
          versions of or replacement products marketed as replacements
          for the aforementioned products, ...  The term "Covered
          Products" shall not ... apply to Windows NT Workstation and
          its successor versions, or Windows NT Advanced Server.
  
  PROHIBITED CONDUCT
  
  Microsoft is enjoined and restrained as follows:
  
      ...
  
      (E) Microsoft shall not enter into any License Agreement in which
  the
          terms of that agreement are expressly or impliedly conditioned
          upon:
  
          (1) the licensing of any other Covered Product, Operating
              System Software product or other product (provided,
              however, that this provision in and of itself shall not be
              construed to prohibit Microsoft from developing integrated
              products); or
  
          (2) the OEM not licensing, purchasing, using or distributing
              any non-Microsoft product.
  
  
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