The chief executive of a company that makes software for interactive television said today that Microsoft could, and probably would, stifle new software that posed a threat to its computer operating system monopoly unless stiffer restrictions were imposed on its business practices. The executive, Mitchell Kertzman of Liberate Technologies, was the 10th witness to testify on behalf of nine states and the District of Columbia, which are seeking broader curbs on Microsoft than the Justice Department (news - web sites) proposed after an appeals court ruled that Microsoft had repeatedly broken antitrust laws.
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