Story: Microsoft's licence to kill

Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 18 March 2005, 5:26 PM)

How idiotic. The license is available to Open Source providers, it's simply not compatible with THEIR choosen way of doing business. Additionally, the court never said MSFT couldn't charge for it. Even the socialist EU stops short of telling a company they had to give up their IP and do it for free. This whole issue is a political/national football. The reality is that anyone who wanted a rival media player could already easily download and MILLIONS do everyday. Additionally, when al the dust clears, hardly any of MSFT's competitors who were so disadvantaged by not having access to MSFT's code, will actually end up licensing it - just like in the US. Because, this isn't about access it's about trying to beat MSFT in court because they can't beat them in front of the customer.