Upset with the Bush administration's proposed antitrust settlement with Microsoft Corp., Los Angeles programmer Dan Kegel posted a letter to the Justice Department on his Web site. He soon had more than 2,100 co-signers. "It lacks effective enforcement and it fails to prohibit a number of anti-competitive licensing practices," said Kegel, with the approval of private software developers at universities, businesses and government laboratories. "It's taking away the chance for real competition in the operating system market."
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