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All MS Settlement Comments Now Online

Posted by timothy on from the as-said-by-people dept.

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."

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  1. fp by mrd98 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post for me

  2. Subject to make you read message goes here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


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  3. Updated by clarkie.mg · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Fastly updated. Good, maybe I will consider subscribing.

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  4. Re:Linux sucks.. by JPriest · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the free time from people with better thnigs to do... Lets see what comment gets -1 Troll eh?

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  5. Re:link 404's by FredGray · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I wonder if 30,000 gun toting MS-Bush bashing people are enough for a revolution....

    Be careful what you say, buddy. You're starting to sound like a terrorist, and you know what we do to them...