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Microsoft's antitrust offering 'blocks Samba'
Talkback If Microsofts proposal is acceped by the EU then Microsoft is infact handed a victory by the EU over its competition. Funny, or is it.
[June 8, 2005, 22:00]
Microsoft's antitrust offering 'blocks Samba'
Talkback It has been plain for years that M$ is pursuing a deliberate policy to lock out competition and create a virtual monoploy whose powers exceed all governments, the consequences of which will adversely affect all our lives.
[June 8, 2005, 23:13]
Microsoft's antitrust offering 'blocks Samba'
Talkback The next step after this is approved: Microsoft sues the developers of Samba on their next release, saying "Prove you didn't see our specs". If THAT doesn't work, they'll work with a 'trojan developer' that has seen the specs, and get Samba yanked...
[June 9, 2005, 20:21]
Microsoft's antitrust offering 'blocks Samba'
Talkback What do people need to understand that, simply put, communications protocols MUST NEVER BE able to become trade secrets, much MUCH less be covered by any sorta patents (which shouldn't even exist in the first place)?
[June 9, 2005, 20:46]
Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'
Talkback Agree EU should get out of the way of business trying to make money. If the Linux geeks actually had anything worthwhile they would actually be able to sell it and make some money And as for standards , the only standrd that counts is who sells the...
[July 15, 2005, 12:17]
Microsoft's antitrust offering 'blocks Samba'
Talkback This is clearly MS double speak. If MS gives the technical details to all competitors to meet interoperability/anti-trust requirements, then it is no longer a trade secret. Also Any SW written using the information provided (now essentially public...
[June 10, 2005, 9:19]
Microsoft seeks help in EU antitrust fight
Talkback It seems to me that Microsoft is wrongly informing (at least not in full) the US government and others here. They must have enormous faith in this action because this could backfire at both ends of the ocean.
[November 14, 2005, 23:13]
Microsoft seeks help in EU antitrust fight
Talkback Gates is trying to intimidate the EC by showing who's on which end of the MS - US DOJ leash. The EC has already succumbed to pressure from Gates and restructured the oversight of the anti-trust case to a more easily deadlocked or manipulated...
[November 15, 2005, 7:57]
Microsoft concedes royalties in antitrust offering
Talkback I'm sorry, since when did Microsoft get to make a 'final offer'? Surely the judges get the final say here, not the convicted criminal?
[June 8, 2005, 9:43]
Microsoft antitrust tussles.
Talkback Just goes to show, you pay enough people you can get away with anything. Ain't democracy great!
[September 13, 2007, 12:15]
PC vendors snub antitrust altered Windows
Talkback Sigh. The only thing Microsoft did was muscle themselves, by means of their PC market share and "free" software, into a new market they totally ignored until someone else made it interesting enough. Media Player, Internet Explorer, MSN, etc, etc.
[June 17, 2005, 0:16]
PC vendors snub antitrust altered Windows
Talkback Only to be expected. If you were offered a car with a free radio player, or a car without a free radio player but with a voucher you could use to get a free radio player down the road (which is pretty much the same but a different brand), which...
[June 15, 2005, 16:07]
EC's proposed antitrust fine 'too low'
News Last week, the European Commission said it may fine Microsoft up to 2m euros (£1.3m) a day for failing to comply with antitrust sanctions. Greve pointed out that Microsoft has already spent billions of euros to resolve antitrust issues with...
[December 28, 2005, 15:20]
Microsoft fights antitrust charges
News Microsoft on Friday hopes to reverse a series of legal setbacks before a Baltimore judge, whom it will ask to dismiss three private antitrust cases pending against the software giant. The cases largely draw on Microsoft's lengthy antitrust case...
[January 10, 2003, 16:04]
EC ends full-time antitrust monitoring of Microsoft
Talkback Makes one wonder how much money exchanged hands to stop monitoring satan's company.
[March 6, 2009, 6:50]
RealNetworks cries foul over Microsoft antitrust case
Talkback Because I am a PC and network engineer. I routinely have to repair PCs for people like you, which contain the aforementioned traces of porn sites. The stuff you find on accountants' computers!
[September 16, 2006, 15:00]
Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'
Talkback In response to Rod; you seem to contradict yourself re owning an idea. A patent is a licence, not an indication of ownership. Also it is possible to have a patent and never implement the invention to which it refers, hence your definition is...
[October 8, 2005, 10:33]
EC sets Microsoft antitrust date
Talkback "Due to the importance placed by the Commission on maintaining the integrity of the software behemoth's intellectual property, it could be the case that the EC lays down the ends and Microsoft decides the means needed to achieve them itself.
[February 24, 2004, 15:50]
FSF berates apathy over Microsoft antitrust case
Talkback You know that the Users are the ones who wil be paying for all this. I'm not a Microsoft Fan Boy (i use SUSE Linux) but its not their fault the so call competition can't make something worth competiting against.
[February 23, 2006, 19:02]
FSF berates apathy over Microsoft antitrust case
Talkback re read the story It's about closed starndards it's about MS setting a new standrd and keeping it propritary so that nothing but MS software can read files made by M$ software so that no one can compete or even interorprate with MS if you had...
[February 24, 2006, 2:11]
