From the Des Moines Register:
A settlement was announced Wednesday in a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of thousands of Iowans who purchased Microsoft software between 1994 and 2006.You were overcharged somewhere between $10.50 and $57 all those years ago when computer hardware cost thousands and thousands of dollars. Iowans will be lucky to get $40 while Roxanne Conlin the tsetse fly of Des Moines Democrat lawyers gets millions.
Terms were not immediately disclosed. Details would be released at a hearing on April 20.
Roxanne Conlin, attorney for the plaintiffs, said half of the unclaimed amount of the settlement will be used to "close the digital divide in Iowa."
She said it will "make sure Iowa's great schools will have opportunities they otherwise would not have."
Conlin filed the lawsuit, claiming Microsoft engaged in illegal monopolization and anticompetitive conduct that caused customers to pay more for software than they would have if there had been competition.
...walk the streets for money, you don't care if it's wrong of if it's right...
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