The Computer and Communications Industry Association which
represents many rivals of Microsoft, has urged a US judge to reject
a recently proposed Microsoft settlement. Microsoft recently
offered to donate $1.1 billion in software, training and PCs to the
poorest schools in the US in lieu of making payments to the 100 or
so individuals who brought a class action antitrust suit against
the company.
Ed Black, president of the Association, claims in a letter
addressed to a Baltimore US District Court Judge that the
settlement “would do nothing to deter future anti-competitive
conduct by Microsoft and would inflict great harm upon the
technology markets affected by such conduct.”
