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Israeli Government Suspends All Contracts with Microsoft

 

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

By Applelinks Senior Editor John H. Farr

According to the Register, Israeli Antitrust Authority director general Dror Strum "has finally acknowledged that Microsoft is a monopoly." As a consequence, the Ministry of Commerce has banned all governmental contracts with Microsoft untl 2005.The Register also says that the Israeli Ministry of Commerce is "said to be" looking into OpenOffice as an alternative to Microsoft's Office suite.

It turns out that Microsoft and the Israeli Antitrust Authority signed a secret agreement in 1999. The agreement has only recently come to light:

The agreement specified that any restrictions imposed as a consequence of the US Department of Justice's antitrust action against Microsoft would be applied in Israel. They weren't enforced, until now.

What has apparently brought matters to a head was Microsoft's refusal to implement Hebrew support in Macintosh editions of Internet Explorer and MS Office. Since neither Microsoft nor Apple made any moves to correct the situation, outraged Apple users in Israel threatened to sue their own government for not enforcing its own antitrust laws.

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