Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 31st Jan 2006 17:55 UTC
European Commission antitrust head Neelie Kroes told EU lawmakers on Tuesday that Microsoft cannot charge a licensing fee for the Windows source code it has promised to share, unless it can prove such code is "innovative." Microsoft made the offer last week in order to comply with a 2004 court ruling.
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RE: Monopolies & Standards
by capprentice24 on Tue 31st Jan 2006 19:52
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But this is to open up there server protocals right?
They are not a monopoly in that Hell If you listen to most Linux people they have no market share..
I never get this anyone can creat a new protocall and install it on winodws machines so that It will alow them to share information, Y do they just not do that insted of crying because there protocals are not open.
RE: Monopolies & Standards
by proforma on Thu 2nd Feb 2006 07:15
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Read up on monopolies. They're evil and there are laws against them in many countries.
Second, read up on the various abuses that monopolies heap on the unsuspecting populous. One happens to be hording of proprietary information to prevent inter-operability with any other company's product (imagine cars that needed a particular type of pavement).
Third, imagine the pomposity which Microsoft reacted with when the EU called them up on the carpet.