[Alan Chapman]

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[Bush2000]

Litigating from the bench -- again!

[parsifal]

Darned old Iowa Supreme Court! Letting customers who have been gypped (gyppees) sue the gyppor. We are indeed slouching toward somewhere. parsy the less than indignant.

[PatrioticAmerican]

"pay “a monopoly price” for the privilege of using Windows"

What? The $15 - $25 the OEM computer manufacturer pays to Microsoft for Windows? That is hardly a "monopoly" price.

[ThinkDifferent]

He could’ve bought a Mac or installed Linux on the Intel machine he did buy.

The flaw in that reasoning is that even if he installed Linux or another OS, he still would have been paying for the Windows license. On the other hand, there have always been manufacturers selling PCs with no OS installed. On the third hand, no major OEM would dare to do this, since they fear retaliation by Microsoft.

[RWG]

I live in Sioux City and am going to see if I can become part of the action. It's an illusion to believe that there is a free market, the farm bill proved that.

[usconservative]

Ah yes, good ol' IOWA:

Idiots
Out
Walking
Around.

There's a reason I left in 1978 and never looked back as I crossed the Mississippi river into Illinois. In fact, I tore the rear view mirror off the windshield so I wouldn't see it at all!

Attention Microsoft: Stop selling Windows in Iowa, and threaten to prosecute ANYONE who runs an Illegal Windows OS in that state, and watch what happens.

[balrog666]

Hummmm, help me out here in a little aside, please.

Given the dollar amounts quoted here, why wasn't the original suit filed in small claims court? How did it get class-action status?

Or was it filed as a class-action suit at the beginning? If so, which law firm(s) is really looking for a payday?

Or... are consumers and lawfirms just latching on to the state attorneys general suits like remoras on sharks?

a confused balrog

[Zon]

Clearing the way for Microsoft to boycott Iowa. How do you like those apples ya bunch a whiners. The other 99.99% of Iowans will be real happy that lawyers and Iowa Supreme Court attacked Microsoft -- NOT!

He’s asking us to morally condemn Microsoft for having the audacity to actually take his money when he willingly offered it to them. And the Iowa Supreme Court sees nothing wrong with this—after all, if Microsoft was willing to allow Joe Comes to buy their “monopoly priced” software, who knows what the company will do tomorrow, they could be selling you software that you might want. And then the vicious cycle of supply-and-demand will spin completely out of control.

OUCH!

[niki]

thus he should be justly compensated for this crime against humanity.

Crime against humanity. LOL. The ICC is going to have a very fun future.