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Microsoft's European License Dissected

Posted by timothy on from the in-the-name-of-science dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet has published a step-by-step explanation of Microsoft's proposed server interoperability license, which was just rejected by the European Commission. The EC said the license excluded open-source vendors and charged unjustifiably high royalty fees -- all bad for business."

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  1. True, but irrelevant by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 1, Troll
    Stop right there. The U.S. is *not* a free market, it's a regulated market that is somewhat free.

    I'll concede that my use of the term "free market" was over-stating things, but none of your objections to the terminology actually addresses the point I was making: a company in this market is (by default) under no obligation to produce products that interoperate with anyone else's if they don't want to.

    Also please note that we're talking about Europe, not the US, here. Establishing whether our markets or more or less free than those across the Atlantic is left as an exercise for the reader.

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