[DMCA-Activists] Microsoft Settles with Netscape

[Seth Johnson]

> http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3226

Microsoft Pays Netscape $750 Million to Settle Antitrust Suit
Thursday May 29th, 2003

Several people wrote in to tell us that Microsoft has agreed to settle the
private antitrust suit filed against it by Netscape Communications
Corporation last year. Microsoft will pay AOL Time Warner, Netscape's parent
company, $750 million to end the litigation. In a related agreement,
Microsoft will give AOL a seven-year royalty-free license to use Internet
Explorer and a long-term license to use its Windows Media 9 Series
technology. The two giants have also agreed to work together on digital
media initiatives and establish interoperability between the AOL Instant
Messenger and MSN/Windows Messenger networks. In addition, Microsoft will
give AOL more technical information about Windows and help AOL to distribute
its software to some PC vendors.

CNN/Money, CNET News.com and Bloomberg.com all have articles about the
settlement. More details are available in Microsoft and AOL Time Warner's
joint press release.

Update! Further reports are available from Slashdot, MSNBC, PC Magazine,
InfoWorld, InternetNews, ENT News, EE Times and the Associated Press (via
InformationWeek). Meanwhile, CNET News.com asks if the IE licensing deal
means the end of Netscape.

Another Update! CNET News.com now has an entire special coverage section on
the deal, which includes a longer updated main article. The Bloomberg.com
report has also been revised and other stories can be found at Wired News,
BetaNews and Reuters.


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