All MS Settlement Comments Now Online

Sundance writes: "The DOJ has published their answer to the Tunney Act comments on the Microsoft settlement. The gist of it is that, basically, they like the settlement agreement the way it was written and won't change much of it, if at all. Choice quote: "A number of commentors are concerned that Microsoft will deny disclosure of APIs and Documentation, or licensing of Communications Protocols, to open source developers on the grounds that the developers do not meet the "reasonable business need" or "authenticity and viability of business" criteria of Section III.J.2.(441) The United States believes that the requirements in Section III.J.2 are no broader than is necessary to prevent misuse or misappropriation of intellectual property." I guess that crimes pays, after all -- provided that you're rich enough to start with." hbo adds: "The comments are indexed by comment id. There is also an alphabetical list of commentators. To find a particular comment, look it up in the list, then find the comment id in the index. Finally, click on the particular comment to view it."

Comments

Damn!

[mESSDan]

The DOJ doesn't run slashcode! How am I supposed to moderate all of these things? Everyone knows that pro-Microsoft comments get -1 troll!

Heh.

Validation?

[stu_coates]

One wonders if any effort has been made to validate the origins of any of the comments. If it has, I guess this one slipped through.

Heh, I found this comment on their site...

[mrroot]

MTC-000000001 0001:

First Comment!

Re:Obfuscated Indices

[linzeal]

Its the weekend database programmers will be up in about 2-3 more hours. They need their sleep.