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| DATE | 2003-09-08 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] BE settles with Microsoft
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Microsoft settles antitrust suit with Be Inc. for $23 million
>From Associated Press, September 8, 2003 Microsoft has agreed to pay
$23.3 million to Be Inc. to settle an antitrust lawsuit that asserted
that Microsoft had negotiated deals with computer makers that cut out
Be Inc.'s competing operating system.
In the agreement announced on Friday, Microsoft admitted no
wrongdoing. The company did not disclose further details.
The lawsuit, filed in February 2002, is one of four private antitrust
suits brought against Microsoft after a federal judge's ruling that
Microsoft had acted as an illegal monopoly based on its dominance in
desktop operating systems.
Microsoft resolved one of the private cases in May, agreeing to pay AOL
Time Warner $750 million to settle its private antitrust lawsuit on behalf
of AOL's Netscape division. The other two, filed by Sun Microsystems and
Burst.com, remain in pretrial proceedings in federal court in Maryland.
A Microsoft spokesman, Jim Desler, declined to say whether the company
was in settlement discussions with either party.
Microsoft also faces another 12 state class-action antitrust lawsuits
filed on behalf of consumers.
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