As someone who managed to be a class member to multiple state-level anti-trust actions against Microsoft, I'm still disgusted how one of the class representatives sold us out.

I remember trying to figure out how to intervene as a non-lawyer and eventually giving up without filing anything. After giving a pitiful offer of a few dollars per class member, they had it such that the rest would be donated to the schools (Apple's last stronghold at the time) and could only be used for new, whole computers, not peripherals or other stuff. This was such a bogus restriction to put on the money that it made my jaw drop. But not being a lawyer, all I knew was that a pro se filing was likely to be ignored.

If I had to do it over again, I would love to have argued about how the settlement was calculated to create a new anti-trust injury and would have requested relief by having a guardian ad litem for the class, after rejecting the current offer. Still not sure it would've gone anywhere, but maybe it would've at least pushed back at the nonsense.

You can opt out of a class and you can ask a lawyer to file a new lawsuit for the new injury.

Yeah, but then there's no one left in the class, essentially. What am I going to do in court as someone with a single copy of Windows 95 and Windows 98?

"What am I going to do in court as someone with a single copy of Windows 95 and Windows 98?"

Entertain the rest of us, of course!