Star Opera Files Antitrust Complaint with the EU Against Microsoft
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Dec 2007 18:31 UTC, submitted by abdavidson
Law and Order "Opera Software filed a complaint with the European Commission yesterday which is aimed at giving consumers a genuine choice of Web browsers. The complaint describes how Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its browser, Internet Explorer, to the Windows operating system and by hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards. Opera has requested the Commission to take the necessary actions to compel Microsoft to give consumers a real choice and to support open Web standards in Internet Explorer."
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Almafeta
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2007-02-22

You're missing (or willfully ignoring) a really big point: Microsoft is a monopoly


That is an opinion, not based in fact; just ask Apple, IBM, or any of the dozens of Linux repackagers that are not going out of business.

The reason the internet works is because it is based on open protocols.


(As an aside, I am really annoyed by this modern trend to add the word 'open' in front of all instances of the word 'protocol' or 'standard'. This implies that they are all intimately related to open-source software and inimical to closed-source software, and I'm sure the people who started doing that were aware of this.)

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