Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Dec 2007 21:29 UTC, submitted by diegocg
"Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation, a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba. Microsoft was required to make this information available to competitors as part of the European Commission March 24th 2004 Decision in the antitrust lawsuit, after losing their appeal against that decision on September 17th 2007."
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RE[6]: Do we really want interoperability?
by gustl on Tue 25th Dec 2007 19:35
in reply to "RE[5]: Do we really want interoperability?"
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To remind you: The string-manufacturing company "Ernie Ball" did just that.
They yanked Windows out of the business within 3 months. And saved $80,000.00 that fiscal year.
That should tell you something: It is not as hard as Microsoft wants you to believe.
Especially the oh so impossible migration of the secretary who cannot possibly switch from MSOffice to OpenOffice is very cheap
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