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=== Antitrust lawsuit === On December 1, 2008, [[Multiven]] filed an [[antitrust]] lawsuit{{refn|<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=168775 | title=Multiven Sues Cisco | newspaper=Light Reading | publisher=lightreading | date=December 1, 2008 | access-date=December 2, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/35852 | title=Net maintenance provider sues Cisco over allegedly monopolistic SMARTnet | publisher=NetworkWorld. | date=December 1, 2008 | access-date=December 2, 2008 | archive-date=January 2, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102200715/http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/35852 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.crn.com/networking/212201523 |title=Cisco Accused Of Monopoly In Antitrust Lawsuit |publisher=ChannelWeb |date=December 2, 2008 |access-date=December 2, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204041433/http://www.crn.com/networking/212201523 |archive-date=December 4, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite press release | url=http://multiven.com/news?article_id=12 | title=Multiven Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Cisco Systems, Inc. | publisher=Multiven, Inc. | date=December 1, 2008 | access-date=December 1, 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106062338/http://multiven.com/news?article_id=12 | archive-date=January 6, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://searchitchannel.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid96_gci1341067,00.html?track=sy540 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715042607/http://searchitchannel.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid96_gci1341067,00.html?track=sy540 | url-status=dead | archive-date=July 15, 2012 | title=Cisco Systems hit with antitrust lawsuit | publisher=SearchITChannel | date=December 4, 2008 | access-date=December 4, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/lawsuit-cisco-blocks-outsider-gear-maintenance/2008-12-03 | title=Lawsuit: Cisco blocks outsider gear maintenance | publisher=fiercetelecom | date=December 3, 2008 | access-date=December 3, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205163343/http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/lawsuit-cisco-blocks-outsider-gear-maintenance/2008-12-03 | archive-date=December 5, 2008 | url-status=dead }}</ref>}} against Cisco Systems, Inc. Multiven's complaint alleges that Cisco harmed Multiven and consumers by bundling and [[Tying (commerce)|tying]] [[Software bug|bug]] fixes/[[Patch (computing)|patches]] and updates for its [[operating system]] software to its maintenance services (SMARTnet). In May 2010, Cisco accused the person who filed the [[antitrust]] suit, British-Nigerian technology entrepreneur [[Peter Alfred-Adekeye]], with hacking and pressured the US government to extradite him from Canada. Cisco settled the antitrust lawsuit two months after Alfred-Adekeye's arrest by making its software updates available to all Multiven customers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://multiven.com/#/advocacy/07192010|title=After weeks of deliberation, Cisco settles Multiven v. Cisco=19 July 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.computerworld.com/article/2519776/government-it/cisco-settles-antitrust-suit-over-software-updates.html|title=Cisco settles antitrust suit over software updates|author=Stephen Lawson|magazine=Computerworld|date=August 2, 2010|access-date=December 27, 2015|archive-date=February 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223022538/https://www.computerworld.com/article/2519776/government-it/cisco-settles-antitrust-suit-over-software-updates.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/06/03/cisco_charged_with_duplicity/|title=Judge blasts Cisco's 'unmitigated gall' in ex-exec's arrest|author=Rik Myslewski|publisher=The Channel|date=June 3, 2011}}</ref>
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