And if you want to read about all the other unpleasant behavour that has the good citizens of Minnesota (and a lot of other people) ticked off you can read their antitrust complaint here
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?s...40322034339981
For a legal document it is surprisingly clear and readable - guess the plain folk in Minnesota like to tell it as it is. It's a sorry tale of nearly two decades of greed, drive, overcharging and nastiness with sabotage of competitors at every turn of the way.
No one with any sense minds someone building a better mousetrap but to steal, bully, threaten and coerce so consistently hasn't in the end given us a better mousetrap, just a prettier one. Now at least more and more mice are seeing it for what it is and, what's more, growing teeth.
Depressingly, if M$ lose, all they will face are fines estimated around $100M which they can well afford to pay (from a war chest of several $Bn) and carry on regardless.
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