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Microsoft To Appeal EU Decision

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fighting-the-old-country dept.

An anonymous reader writes "News.com has an article on Microsoft's upcoming appeal of the EU antitrust decision. Their argument is essentially that they shouldn't be penalized for becoming successful in a marketplace." From the article: "Microsoft relies on the fact that its communication protocols are technologically innovative and are covered by intellectual-property rights ... [the company] had designed its Windows server operating systems from the outset to interoperate with non-Microsoft server operating systems"

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  1. Let me be the first to say by ats-tech · · Score: 1, Informative

    "Microsoft To Appeal EU Decision"

    Well duh.

  2. Sure, George by gowen · · Score: 5, Informative
    had designed its Windows server operating systems from the outset to interoperate with non-Microsoft server operating systems
    Sure. That's why SMB is so appallingly documented that the only way to re-implement it is by packet sniffing Windows clients. And why their Kerberos implementation was deliberately incompatible with everyone elses, and with the incompatibility protected as a trade secret.
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  3. I HAPPEN TO KNOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I happen to know of a certain lab at Microsoft. In this lab they try to find ways to:

    a) Configure Windows boxes in ways which BREAK Linux and other Open Source os's interoperability.
    b) Create subtle changes to Windows protocols which keep Windows boxes moving fast, but slow down things like Samba.

    They are not friends of Open Source.

  4. How about a link to the actual filings? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Look to http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200604110 33758760 for what microsoft said in recent filings.

    Reading those filings, Microsoft is saying "... but the users will have educated themselves on what our routines are doing, we shouldn't have to explain in OUR documentation."