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To: Columbo who started this subject	9/1/2000 10:59:26 AM
From: PJ Strifas	of 1600

Microsoft must shell out $1 million in Bristol case By Bloomberg News September 1, 2000, 4:40 a.m. PT URL: news.cnet.com REDMOND, Wash.--A federal judge has ruled that Microsoft engaged in unfair business practices against software maker Bristol Technologies and has ordered the giant to pay $1 million in punitive damages, according to reports. Judge Janet Hall in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport, Conn., said Microsoft violated the state's fair-trade laws, The Wall Street Journal reported. The giant software maker said it simply engaged in tough negotiations with Bristol over terms of a license for Microsoft's Windows software, which Bristol needed to create its products. Closely held Bristol makes software that helps developers rewrite Windows programs for rival operating system Unix. The court found that Microsoft deliberately withheld the needed Windows license from Bristol, the newspaper said. Microsoft's actions were intended to make it more difficult to move Windows-based programs over to Unix at a time when the company was beginning to push industrial-strength versions of Windows to compete with Unix, the court found. Copyright 2000, Bloomberg L.P. All Rights Reserved.

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