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Microsoft accuses EC of conspiracy, secret negotiations in antitrust affair

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Redmond (WA) - Acknowledging that the European Commission did grant Microsoft access to documents pertaining to the EC's communications with the monitoring trustee it appointed to evaluate Microsoft's compliance with its 2004 antitrust ruling, Microsoft accused the EC, in a Supplemental Response this morning, of secretly collaborating with four companies, apparently to sway the opinion of the trustee.

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henke54 ·
quote : "Judge Kollar-Kotelly heard that total donations to political donations from Microsoft and its employees to political parties, candidates and PACs in the 2000 election cycle amounted to more than $6.1 million. During this period, Microsoft and its executives accounted for $2.3 million in soft money contributions, compared to $1.55 million by Enron and its executives for the same period. Soft money is the term generally given to unregulated corporate and individual contributions that cannot go directly to candidates, but which typically goes to political parties." http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-835267.html

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