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European Commission’s Decision in the Microsoft Case and its Implications for Other Companies and Industries (PDF) | |
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| Time: 00:29 EST/05:29 GMT | News Source: Microsoft | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner | ||
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Microsoft reaction: The European Commission is seeking to make new law that will have an adverse impact on consumers, the technology industry and many other sectors by stifling innovation. |
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| #1 By 12071 (203.217.76.227) at Thursday, April 22, 2004 06:39:38 AM |
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There's a reasonable amount of material in this document, a bit of "they can't do this, it's unfair" and some scare tactics in the form of "This adverse impact will not be confined to the software industry or to Europe.", as if the decisions that the EC makes is going to affect US customers or any other country's (outside the EU) customers! This however did strike me as odd:
"The Decision requires Microsoft to make available to its competitors well over 100 communications protocols that provide a wide range of capabilities in Microsoft’s operating system products, including its synchronization capabilities. It is also notable that the specifications Microsoft must now license do not yet exist. Microsoft will have to create them." Microsoft don't have specifications for the communication protocols they use? What do they do when they want to know how protocol x works? Do they call Mr Jones who is the "protocol x" man? This makes no sense! Oh well, we'll see what happens when this all goes to court. |
| #2 By 1643 (68.236.192.143) at Thursday, April 22, 2004 02:27:58 PM |
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In response to your third paragraph...they would just call protocol x man, walk over to his office, or send him an email. Why would you as a developer want to document code (in a public consumable format) if you didn't need to? This post was edited by humor on Thursday, April 22, 2004 at 14:29. |
| #3 By 3653 (209.149.57.116) at Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:11:27 PM |
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The EU's decision is never going to make it through a reasonable court of appeal.
This is just ANOTHER (think GE, Boeing) example of the EU trying to give a boost to their local economies at the cost of dominant America. P O L I T I C S |
