Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Dec 2007 18:31 UTC, submitted by abdavidson
"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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RE[4]: Filing suit against other companies
by trenchsol on Sat 15th Dec 2007 15:13
in reply to "RE[3]: Filing suit against other companies"
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OPEN does not mean FREE, both in monetary and GNU sense. Open source people often don't see the difference.
Opera can't outdo IE with being compliant to the standards. Standard compliance is something that web developers deal with, not the end users. Standard compliance is a something that increases the costs of the particular product. It is similar to environment protection regulations compliance. Unfortunately, one does not get fined for violating the standards, unlike the environment protection.
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2006-06-03
an OPEN protocol is one that has been publically, and officially, published. Unlike, say a CLOSED protocol like the pre XML Microsoft Office File Formats. Or the informal 'Microsoft HTML'.