Go files antitrust suit against Microsoft

This is getting a bit ridiculous. Microsoft worked hard to become number 1. If there was a viable desktop OS as easy to use and intuitive as Windows then they would be number 1. Until the time comes that another OS can take market share from Microsoft they will continue to have a bullseye on their back. Microsoft does not stifle competition, they encourage it. The problem is that it is easier to file a lawsuit to try to get into Microsofts pockets then to release a viable OS that can put a dent in their market share.
A bit from the article.

The founder of pen computing pioneer Go filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft, claiming that the software giant violated antitrust laws by trying to thwart Go’s attempt to enter the PC operating system market.

The suit, which seeks unspecified damages, was filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco by S. Jerrold Kaplan, Go’s founder.

“Microsoft undertook to ‘kill’ Go by resorting to many of the same collusive and exclusionary tactics Microsoft used against Netscape, Sun, Novell…and others,” according to the complaint, which was seen by CNET News.com.

The lawsuit also claims that Microsoft stole Go technology, that the company threatened Intel, which had invested in Go, and that it used “incentives and threats” to coerce Compaq, Fujitsu, Toshiba and other computer makers not to use Go’s operating system.

Read the rest at cNet.

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