California Sues Microsoft For Antitrust--Again

KingFishKingFish
edited August 2004 in Science & Tech
California is trying to make Microsoft pay--again.
Five state counties and two cities have filed a class-action lawsuit against the software giant for using its monopoly power to deny government agencies free choice in software products and charge high prices. The legal action, filed by the city and county of San Francisco, said that Microsoft's tactics caused harm to government users of its Windows operating system and Word and Excel software. "It's anticompetitive, it's predatory, and it denies consumers, and in this case taxpayers, the benefits of innovation that a free marketplace should provide," Dennis Herrera, attorney for the city of San Francisco, said in a statement.
Source: ZDNet

Comments

  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited August 2004
    California, land of the fruits and nuts. They need to leave Microsoft alone. Apparently in this country, a business being successful at what they do is a major no-no.

    Although, I'm suprised that Wal-Mart isn't being treated the same way as they treat Microsoft.
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited August 2004
    Wal Mart is being sued increasingly too as many neighborhoods have decided that wal-marts are destroying their independent businesses and are even adopting ordinances to specifically barring wal-marts from being built. It appears that many are not satisfied with letting the market decide which way things should go.

    KF
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