[Am-info] Sun Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Microsoft

[John J. Urbaniak]

John Poltorak wrote:

> 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.
>

And I am an OS/2 developer.  If anyone out there knows an attorney who would be
willing to represent my case ...

John