Judge cuts two appeals in Microsoft antitrust case
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
The judge in the U.S. government's antitrust case against Microsoft has ruled that two attempts to appeal the case, including one from a consumer group, cannot move forward. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Friday denied two motions to intervene for purposes of appeal, one from Consumers for Computing Choice (CCC) and the other from Robert E. Litan, vice president and director of the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, a liberal Washington think tank.
CCC filed the motion in December arguing that the proposed settlement between Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Justice and several states would harm consumers. CCC had argued that the settlement didn't go far enough in opening Microsoft source code to outside developers.