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MS To Offer Windows Sans WMP, If EU So Orders

Posted by timothy on from the bullying-begets-bullying dept.

PSwim writes "Microsoft has said it will remove Media Player from Window, if ordered by the EU this week. The 'Windows-Lite' version will only be available in Europe. Best quote from the article involves its refusal to release networking documentation: '"The Commission says Linux would disappear" if Microsoft did not grant access to its documentation, Smith claimed. "But Linux is alive and well and I don't know any person at Linux or any Linux programmers who share the Commission's view."'"

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  1. Of course... by pe1chl · · Score: 0, Redundant

    >"Microsoft has said it will remove Media Player from Window, if ordered by the EU this week.

    Of course. The other option would be to stop selling Windows in the EU. Who would have expected that?

  2. Paradoxal by muggsopp · · Score: 0, Redundant

    this is facinating me somewhat, 'cause it somehow brings up this question I seem to be unable to answer myself...

    If Linux, or the OSS if you may, can't survive unless MicroSoft grants access to their documentations and specs, who in the name of sweet lord Jesus managed to pull through the Samba Project support for MS clients?


    BTW:
    I heard this joke on Billy once (please mind the language):
    Bill Gates once bought a dutch prostitute, and screwed her as hard as he could. When they were done, she sighed and shook her head while saying: Now I know why it's called Microsoft...