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.

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