[Am-info] Sun Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Microsoft

[John Poltorak]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:17:12PM -0500, Paul Rickard wrote:
> ========== On 2002.03.08 03:39 PM, John J. Urbaniak typed: ============
> 
> >I think IBM owes it to its stockholders to sue too.
> 
>     Maybe IBM will wait to see how it comes out with the Be Inc. (I 
> assume that one is still going on even though the company is 
> dissolving?), AOL/Netscape, and Sun Micro lawsuits. The longer you wait 
> the less work your lawyers will have to do -- the DoJ and states attorney 
> generals did some leg work, now AOL and Sun will do more, all IBM will 
> have to do is take those cases and change the name of the plaintiff.

Actually, IBM don't need to do that since they have the strongest case of 
anyone if you look through the Findings of Fact. Microsoft caused IBM a  
huge financial loss by penalising them for daring to offer customers some 
choice to customers on its own PCs when it launched OS/2 Warp in 1994. If 
IBM had backed the OS/2 company rather than the PC company it could be 
argued that OS/2 would be the dominant OS on the PC platform today.


> 
> 
> ======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
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> 
>   "Faced with the prospect of rereading this book, I would rather have
>    my brains ripped out by a plastic fork."
>        -ZDNet Review of Bill Gates' book 'Business @ the Speed of Thought'


-- 
John