Archive for March 11th, 2010

Class-action Battle in BC

British Columbia, Canada, is the scene of a battle shaping up against M$ for anti-competitive acts causing harm to purchasers of licences. The class was just certified.

” The statement of claim alleges that Microsoft committed specific anti-competitive acts aimed at a number of competing products. These include:

(a) DRI’s DR DOS operating system;

(b) IBM’s OS/2 operating system;

(c) Go’s PenPoint, an operating system designed to accept handwriting as an input;

(d) Be’s BeOS operating system;

(e) Linux and other open source operating systems;

(f) Lindows.com, Inc.’s LindowsOS operating system, now known as Linspire;

(g) Micrografx’s Mirrors developer tool;

(h) Borland’s C++ programming language;

(i) Netscape’s Navigator web browser;

(j) Sun’s Java programming language;

(k) RealNetwork’s audio and video streaming software;

(l) Burst’s video streaming technology;

(m) Intel’s NSP software to enhance graphics and video performance of PCs with Intel computer chips;

(n) Samba open source software that allows Linux and UNIX machines to act as files, print and authentication servers for Windows clients;

(o) Lotus’ Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software;

(p) WordPerfect (later Corel’s) WordPerfect word processing software;

(q) Sun’s StarOffice office application;

(r) Corel’s WordPerfect Office application;

(s) Lotus’ SmartsSuite application.”

I love it. I tried to get the Competition Bureau to act years ago but they declined in deference to the US DOJ. Why surrender sovereignty? Every nation should prosecute M$ into the Stone Age.

- Robert Pogson



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