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Source: Wright, Christopher (wrightc@hunton.com)
Moderator: Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com)
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The petition against Microsoft for anticompetitive behaviour filed 
with the Italian antitrust by IACT Italia - the independent association 
of Italian supporters of the International Alliance for Compatible 
Technology established by a group of Italian OS/2 users - has obtained 
its first results.

In particular, it has been possible to have the same authority, 
the Autorita' Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, send the Italian 
Ministry of Finance a demand to cease and desist from compelling 
users to adopt Windows applications developed by the Land and Estate 
Registry in order to collect and deliver relevant data for fiscal 
purposes. The Italian antitrust found that the diffusion of such 
applications was discriminatory against users of other operating 
systems, such as OS/2 or Linux, not to mention users of non-compatible 
hardware such as Apple Macintosh. 

Carlo Piana of Studio Legale Sutti, counsel for IACT Italia in the
abovementioned antitrust petition - which is now pending with the 
authority under the no. A/264 - has declared:

"This result is especially important, since it prevents the Italian public
agencies from endorsing in the future a Microsoft-only policy, 
which would leave other platforms' users and producers out in the 
cold. The Italian antitrust authority has shared our view on the 
need to order all public agencies to conform to open, non-proprietary 
standards, thus refraining from reinforcing the monopolistic 
policies denounced in IACT Italia's petition".

More details on IACT Italia Web site. "http://www.ogcs.com/iact-italia/"

Yours sincerely,


Charles L. Casassa, i, LL.M.
Attorney-at-Law
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Studio Legale Sutti
Via Montenapoleone 8
20121 Milan, Italy
Central e-mail: sutti@ibm.net
Tel. +39 02 76204.1
Fax +39 02 76204806
Home Page: http://www.sutti.com
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