Microsoft To Publish APIs And List Patents
News Microsoft has released details of how it will comply with the 2004 EU antitrust decision, including publishing "all" details of application-programming interfaces for its high-volume products, listing its software patents that cover...
[February 21, 2008, 16:06]
Government Delays IT Recycling Directive
News Several other major EU Member states now appear to be planning their practical implementations on a similar, deferred timetable," said the letter's author, Chris Tollady from DTI WEEE implementation. The DTI has announced a delay to key elements of...
[March 29, 2005, 16:25]
Samba: EC Ruling Made Microsoft Talk Again
News We've also seen areas where stuff that we've done has been incorporated by Microsoft into its implementations.up until now, we haven't been able to see exactly how they did it," he added. Tridgell went onto say that the 2004 European Commission...
[March 12, 2008, 13:37]
EC Threatens Microsoft With More Fines
News The Commission said on Thursday that there is virtually no innovation in the 51 protocols in the "No Patent Agreement" where Microsoft has claimed non-patented innovation, as the described features were Microsoft implementations of prior...
[March 1, 2007, 14:44]
Microsoft's Draft Licence, Step By Step
News Section 2.4 states: "The licenses granted in Section 2.1(a) do not include any license right, power or other authority to subject Licensed Server Implementations or derivative works thereof in whole or in part to any of the terms of any other...
[March 18, 2005, 17:10]
Microsoft Makes Source Code Plea To EC
News We are licensing it to our direct competitors so they can learn from it when creating their implementations of our protocols. Microsoft has offered to make its Windows server source code available to people licensing its server interoperability...
[January 25, 2006, 13:25]
Munich Linux Migration Delayed By 'PR Stunt'
News The Munich Linux migration remains one of the most high profile mass implementations of the open source OS to date. The strongest point I could make in my defence was that none of the other approaches had generated anything like a comparable level...
[March 29, 2006, 11:05]
