Details of Microsoft's Settlement With Iowa 96
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samzenpus
from the pay-up dept.
from the pay-up dept.
dringess writes "As reported on Yahoo, Microsoft has settled the suit brought by the State of Iowa. Individuals can collect $16 for each copy of MS-DOS or Windows purchased from 1994-2006, while Office nets $29. No proof of purchase required! Now I can finally get some money from Microsoft!" Here is our original coverage of the settlement.
you misunderstand this case (Score:4, Informative)
Iowa relied on the federal antitrust ruling of 2000 which already found Microsoft to be an abusive monopolist. The Iowa's case was only about how much Microsoft has to pay as a compensation for breaking antitrust laws.
Re:Settle != guilty (Score:4, Informative)
California settled a year or two (or three) ago. I got a nice shiny check for $78 dollars just for filling out a single form and mailing it in. Didn't require many details beyond the number of copies purchased.
So if there are any Iowans out there, warm up your pens. It's worth doing, not to mention very satisfying.
Read the article a little closer... (Score:2, Informative)
Surely I don't need to say this but (Score:2, Informative)
The company I work for is a small (12 ppl) firm which resells computers with win2k and msofc 2k3. Therefore we truthfully have PoP for probably (say three+) hundreds of copies of each. That's about $45 * 300+ = $13k+? Too bad we're not in Iowa. That's just if we only had 300 PoPs, and I figure it's probably more than that, but I'm being conservative.
Mirror Here (Score:2, Informative)
I also have one but I am not about to publish it for a slashdotting.