Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer

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Your Rights Online: Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 04, @09:55AM
from the well-thats-one-way-to-get-at-this-story dept.

DaveM writes "Bush's most recent Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers, successfully argued that people who were sold defective software by Microsoft weren't "injured," and couldn't participate in a class action against the company. The case involved unstable compression features in MS DOS 6.0, which were corrected by a $9.95 update, MS DOS 6.2. Plaintiffs wanted Microsoft to offer the updates for free, but eventually lost to Miers' arguments."

link to story with details - http://www.slingshot.org/?p=135

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good job George!

doncha know? gee whiz, our Dem leadership LOVES Harriet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1635317.stm

Friday, 2 November, 2001, 23:08 GMT

Microsoft rivals blast 'toothless' deal


Consumer groups and Microsoft's competitors have hit out at the US Justice Department (DoJ) for not coming down hard enough on the software giant.

It doesn't punish Microsoft for past behaviour, it just tells them to quit doing what they shouldn't be doing

James Love, US consumer championThe final details of the anti-trust sanctions to be taken against Microsoft have yet to emerge after both parties agreed to settle out of court on Friday.

But the proposed DoJ settlement has already been branded 'toothless' and a 'sell-out' by the trade body representing some of Microsoft's biggest competitors.

It is clear the proposal will not deter Microsoft's illegal behaviour or prevent it from leveraging its operating system monopoly into markets for other products and services

Computer and Communications Industry AssociationAOL Time Warner, whose Netscape product was at the heart of the US government's original court action against Microsoft, has said the proposed sanctions against the software giant would be too easily evaded.

While Sun Microsystems has said it does not think the proposed settlement goes far enough.

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That's reason enough to filibuster her.