Microsoft sued in MN. (Residents read, please.)

[XMEN Gambit]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?stor ... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The plaintiffs ... offered a spectacularly detailed opening statement. On a giant screen jurors saw dozens of internal memos from Microsoft, Intel and other technology companies...<br>Crew tried to put the case in terms familiar to the Minnesota jurors. He asked them to consider Xcel Energy, their sole energy provider. Now imagine, he said, that Xcel gets into the business of making toasters. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>And every time another toaster-maker built a toaster that could be plugged into the power outlet in your home, Xcel changed the shape of the outlet so that only their toasters would work.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br> "This, Crew said, is much like the charges of technical sabotage against Microsoft: That deliberate booby traps in Microsoft software kept competitors' products from functioning correctly."<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Why couldn't we have prosecuters like that in the Fed case? That's a pretty darn good way of illustrating the point. Emphasis was mine, BTW. <br><br>Oh, and Hat, SW, and you other dudes from MN, <!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>If you purchased, in Minnesota, Microsoft Windows, MS-DOS, Word, Excel, or Office software, or a personal computer on which this software was already installed, from May 18, 1994 through December 15, 2001, you may be affected by a class action lawsuit.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Ambush Bug]

Ahhh, I can't get in on this one. Drat. Probably only get me something like ten bucks anyway. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Spinning Hat]

Yeah, this hasn't made much on the local news channels here, but it's pretty big on the 'net. And, as a MN resident, you don't have to do anything to be included in the suit yet. I don't understand it all, but it's probably not worth the $10. <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Never, Never, Never Quit"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> -Winston Churchill</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

Ah, but you discount the entertainment value to the public, and also the value it adds to the media outlets in giving them something to report. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>(If you find that logic entertaining, read some of Harry Harrison's <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Stainless Steel Rat</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> books.) <p></p><i></i>

[Nilk]

they've already released awards, here in FL, I didn't pay for any of the products they'd listed <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :( --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/frown.gif ALT=":("><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br> <p></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

Different lawsuit, Nilk. Same subject, though. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>