Friday, March 18, 2005

Microsoft busted again

The Competition directorate of the EU Commission has (quelle surprise) concluded that Microsoft is not complying with the agreement it made with the Commission. Apparently they're:
- not making it easy for competitors to get access to compatibility protocols
- overcharging for the licenses they require before the allow companies to see Windows' innards
- not allowing companies to see into specific protocols but force them to gain licensed access to 'everything' (also relates to pricing)
- not allowing open source access to their protocols
- gouging companies eyes out with royalties

(Please don't mind the 'protocol' part - the original article was pretty unclear on what they meant with that but my guess is that they meant Windows APIs. Any developer of a complementary/competing product would rather hook into the APIs at a source level than at the OS level but Microsoft is doing its best not to allow this access.)

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