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Freeman [soylentnews.org] writes:

Amazon is seeking a court order that would prevent Microsoft from doing work for the US Department of Defense under a contract that Amazon says was awarded improperly.
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Amazon alleges that the president "launched repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks to steer the JEDI Contract away from AWS [Amazon Web Services] to harm his perceived political enemy—Jeffrey P. Bezos," the founder and CEO of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post.
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both the US and Microsoft "intend to file partial motions to dismiss" the case, the status report said.
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The status report also says that the US government "does not intend to file an answer to AWS’s complaint." Instead, "the parties will file cross-motions for judgment on the administrative record."
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Trump "escalated his intervention, jettisoning any appearance of impartiality by making clear to DoD (and to the world) that he did not want AWS to get the JEDI Contract," the lawsuit said.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/amazon-asks-court-to-block-microsofts-10b-contract-with-us-defense-dept/ [arstechnica.com]

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