[DM-MUG] MS Case settles, no closing of the 'digital divide'

[Victoria L. Herring]

According to the AP - MS case here settled and the attorney for 
plaintiffs said that half of the amount would be used to "close the 
digital divide in Iowa".  That's bull.

Closing the divide would mean providing Intel based multi-operating 
system Apple Macintoshes in the schools, not providing Windows only 
computers [unless of course the computers were Intel based Macs which 
were loaded with Windows and OSX].    Letting MS give away a bunch of 
computers or software to schools that is proprietary to MS [which was 
done in other cases]  is not an answer to an antitrust suit = it is 
the perpetuation of the monopoly = I never understood that before and 
certainly don't understand it now.
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