Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Feb 2008 18:33 UTC, submitted by JJ
"Microsoft was fined a record 899 million euros (USD 1.35 billion) by the European Commission on Wednesday for using high prices to discourage software competition in the latest sanction in their long-running battle. The executive arm of the European Union said the U.S. software group defied a 2004 order from Brussels to provide the information on reasonable terms. Microsoft has now been fined a total of 1.68 billion euros by the EU for abusing its 95 percent dominance of PC operating systems through Windows."
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2005-07-24
Well, while I don't recall any former MS guys who worked on Samba... I do recall an interview with either Jeremy or Andrew some years ago in which they said that earlier on, certain factions within Microsoft had been friendly, helpful, and cooperative, and excited about the prospect of SMB running well on other OSes. Which dovetails with statements made recently by Jeremy about how it is hoped that the agreement which got them the CIFS documentation might signal a return to normalcy for Samba<->MS relations.