Iowa Attorneys Say Microsoft Defying Justice Pact
Microsoft(MSFT Quote) can't quite get free of its lingering antitrust problems. The latest: Attorneys for plaintiffs in an Iowa class-action suit say the giant software maker is not complying with a landmark 2002 settlement with the Department of Justice.
Microsoft, says co-counsel Kent Williams of Minneapolis, has failed to open up its source code and reveal the underlying interfaces needed by developers to make their software compatible with Windows, as is mandated by the settlement.
An Iowa judge has given Williams permission to send information about the allegedly undocumented application programming interfaces to the DOJ, and Williams expects to do so late Monday. What action the department could take if it finds that that claim is true is unclear. ...
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