Massachusetts' attorney general said his state would not sign on to a proposed settlement in the antitrust case against Microsoft because it does not protect competing software makers. ``Microsoft will use this agreement to crush competition,'' Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly said Sunday. He said Massachusetts would not approve the proposed agreement between the software giant and the U.S. Department of Justice without ``major changes.'' He also said he did not expect those changes to happen before a Tuesday deadline, set for Massachusetts and 17 other states taking part in the case to respond. He said he expected to press for changes in the settlement before U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kottelly.
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