[Am-info] AOL/TW files antitrust suit against guess who...

[John Bryan]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20310-2002Jan22.html

AOL Files Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft

AOL Time Warner sued Microsoft in federal court Tuesday over AOL=92s=20
Netscape Internet browser, which ruled computer desktops until Microsoft=20=

began giving its competing browser away.

Many of Microsoft=92s business practices, including ones in which the=20
company encouraged computer manufacturers and Internet providers to=20
distribute its Web browser instead of Netscape, were found to be=20
anticompetitive by a federal appeals court last year. AOL, which now=20
owns Netscape, wants Microsoft to cease its contested business practices=20=

and pay damages.

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