Groklaw - Microsoft, antitrust and innovation, by Georg Greve - The Diigo Meta page

• 30 Sep 07
  

  inmatrix

  antitrust microsoft SI507 law

• 29 Sep 07
  

  Bruce Miller

  written by Director of FSF Europe, but nonetheless sound refutation of MS' arguments against European court (CFI) decision

  Linux OR open source free software

• 27 Sep 07
  

  webmink

  Excellent and rational article by George Greve that punctures the "penalty to innovation" frame some have put round the EU antitrust ruling.

  Microsoft antitrust Europe interoperability law standards OOXML

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  Gary Edwards

  antitrust interoperability microsoft odf

  • Interoperability:

      

    The second abusive practice the Commission found Microsoft guilty of is the deliberate obstruction of interoperability, generally achieved through arbitrary and willful modification of Open Standards. This makes it impossible for competitors to write interoperable software. This is to the detriment of customers, who find themselves locked into the products of one vendor, the antithesis of competition.

  • It might look much worse in the light of public statements that Microsoft will not even commit to standards that it has proposed itself, such as the recent Microsoft OfficeOpenXML (OOXML) format it wants approved by ISO.

      

    The less people talk about the interoperability side of the case, the better for Microsoft. Otherwise people might connect MS-OOXML to the fact that Microsoft initiated the standardisation effort in the workgroup server area to open the market and later started obstruction of interoperability on its own standard to drive the innovator out of the market.

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  Gary Edwards on 2007-09-27
  Excellent explanation of Microsoft's problems in Europe.  One can only hope that the successor to the Bush Administration is paying attention. 
  

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