Microsoft buy-offs, anyone?

[unixronin]

Here's an interesting little revelation....  it seems that when Microsoft settled its antitrust battle with the Computer & Communications Industry Association earlier this month, half of the $19.75 million settlement went directly to Ed Black, CEO of the CCIA and a vocal Microsoft critic.  In return, CCIA dropped its antitrust suit against Microsoft alleging that Windows XP is anticompetitive, and also agreed to stop acting as an agent for the EU in its own antitrust suit.

Hey, if you can't beat'em on merit, buy'em off...?