NetAction's Consumer's Choice Campaign Resources

Learn more about anti-trust laws, the federal investigation of Microsoft, and why Microsoft is a threat to competition, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the computer industry.

Alternative Operating Systems Anti-trust Resources Government Resources Resources for contacting government officials News Reports Security Resources Boycott Resources Comic Relief

Alternative Operating Systems

Non-commercial:

FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org
Linux: http://www.linux.org
OpenBSD: http://www.openbsd.org
The XFree86 Project, Inc.: http://www.xfree86.org
NetBSD: http://www.netbsd.org
The K Desktop Environment: http://www.kde.org
Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org

Commercial:

Amiga: http://www.amiga.com
Apple (Macintosh): http://www.apple.com
Be, Inc.: http://www.be.com
BSDI: http://www.bsdi.com
Caldera: http://www.caldera.com
OS/2: http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp (official); http://www.os2ss.com/ (also useful)
Redhat: http://www.redhat.com
SavaJe XE: http://www.savaje.com
Sun: http://www.sun.com
SCO: http://www.sco.com

Also of interest: International Alliance for Compatible Technology at http://pages.cthome.net/iact/.

Anti-trust Resources

Join an online debate about Microsoft antitrust issues: http://www.geocities.com/~bchandra/topic2.htm
Appraising Microsoft Conference: http://www.appraising-microsoft.org/; This conference was organized by Ralph Nader, and was held November 13-14, 1997 in Washington, DC.
Antitrust Enforcement and the Consumer: http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/misc/antitrust/antitrus.htm; Written by an Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division. Explains the details of the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Clayton Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act.
The Case Against Microsoft (Spring 96): http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/spazz/mspaper.htm; An analysis of Micro$oft's anti-competitive business practices.
Microsoft antitrust settlement rejected (14 Feb 95): http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/microsoft/0102.htm; The text of Judge Stanley Sporkin's opinion overruling the consent decree between Microsoft and the Justice Department (Sporkin's opinion was later overruled).
Anti-trust Law and Economics Review: http://webpages.metrolink.net/~cmueller/
Anti-trust Policy Page: http://www.antitrust.org/
Consumer Project on Technology: http://www.cptech.org
EFF analysis of Microsoft anti-trust issues: http://www.eff.org/pub/Legal/Cases/DoJ_v_Microsoft/doj_v_microsoft_background.article
E-Node Godzilla Redeux (Apr 97): http://www.igc.apc.org/e-node/1997/enode0422a.htm
E-Node: Godzilla Uber Alles (9 Jul 96): http://www.igc.apc.org/e-node/1996/enode0102a.htm
Reback's letter to the Wall Street Journal: http://www.courttv.com/library/cyberlaw/microsoft/wsjletter.html

Government Resources

Department of Justice Home Page: http://www.usdoj.gov/
DOJ search of documents about Microsoft: http://www.usdoj.gov/cgi-bin/aglimpse/12/pub1/htdocs?query=microsoft&errors=0&age=&maxfiles=50&maxlines=30
US Department of Justice email address for antitrust matters:
Federal Trade Commission Home Page: http://www.ftc.gov/
FTC email address for antitrust matters:

Resources for contacting government officials

Directory of 105th Congress: http://congress.nw.dc.us/congressorg/congdir.html
Congressional delegations by state or territory: http://www.capweb.net/state.html
Zip code directory for locating Congressional representatives: http://www.voxpop.org/zipper/

News Reports

Corporate Watch's Editorial: One World Operating System: http://www.corpwatch.org/feature/microsoft/
The Greatest Operating System that Never Was (5/98): http://www.wired.com/wired/5.08/linux.html
Slamming Gates: Is Microsoft-bashing good for you?; http://www.thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/current/shenk012698.html
The Perma-Temp Proletariat (Jan 98): http://www.abcnews.com/sections/scitech/moody35/index.html
Microsoft Denies NetAction Claims (12 Dec 97): http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/97/105123.html; (This is a summary--you have to register with newsbytes for the full article)
Action Group Protests Microsoft's Education Initiative (10 Dec 97): http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/9062.html
State to review Microsoft college deal (9 Dec 97): http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,17161,00.html?latest
Overseas Invasion (Mother Jones, Jan/Feb 1998): Microsoft has discovered a way to bully foreign companies into buying Microsoft -- and only Microsoft.; http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JF98/burstein.html
How Microsoft got the Internet Explorer name: http://www.cnnfn.com/digitaljam/9710/27/microsoft_pkg/
Consumer Group Attacks Microsoft (13 May 97): http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,10601,00.html
Microsoft antitrust file grows (22 May 97): http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,10911,00.html
Making Microsoft Safe for Capitalism by James Gleick (NY Times, 4 Aug 96): http://www.around.com/microsoft.html
The Calgary Herald: Small firms wary of wealthy Microsoft (7 May 97): http://www.southam.com/calgaryherald/cgi/newsnow.pl?nkey=ch&file=/business/technology/970507/t0507mt06.html
Online Business Today on Gates and the Internet (news report): http://www.hpp.com/s-stealthenet.html
RCM Financial's analysis of MS and Netscape (1 Oct 96): http://www.rcmfinancial.com/sample4/html/features_0.htm
RED HERRING article on Intuit (Jan 95): http://www.herring.com/mag/issue17/question.html
Time Magazine article: http://www.milligan.milligan-college.tn.us/stampede/101files/timebg3.htm
U.S. News Cover Story: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/25micb.htm (opening page); http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/michigh.htm (main story with links)
WIRED's "inside story" on Microsoft: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Owen/froeb/mgt352/MrBill.html

Last modified 23 May 99.