[MLUG - DISCUSSION] You had to know it was coming

[Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Thomas Slattery of California is suing Apple because he can't play his
iTunes-bought songs on anything but an iPod. Mr. Slattery believes
that what Apple is doing breaks anti-competition laws, and he wants
damages because he was "forced to purchase an Apple iPod" to listen to
the music he had bought.

The lawsuit states:
Apple has turned an open and interactive standard into an artifice
that prevents consumers from using the portable hard drive digital
music player of their choice. ... Apple has unlawfully bundled, tied,
and/or leveraged its monopoly in the market for the sale of legal
online digital music recordings to thwart competition in the separate
market for portable hard drive digital music players, and vice-versa.
Apple has refused to comment on the case at this time.

pulled from:

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2005Jan/gee20050107028590.htm

I doubt this goes any further than the Microsoft case, but the
parallels are astounding. I think this case has as much merit as
anything levied against Microsoft, and in my opinion very little.
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Thanks
F Vernon Green
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