EU Could Force Bundling Firefox With Windows

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 26, 2009 @03:57AM from the could-they-force-me-a-sandwich dept.

Barence writes "The European Commission could force Microsoft to bundle Firefox with future versions of Windows. The revelation came as part of Microsoft's quarterly filing with the Security and Exchange Commission. Among the statements is a clause outlining the penalties being considered by the European watchdog, which recently ruled that Microsoft is harming competition by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. The most interesting situation outlined in the filing would see either Microsoft or computer manufacturers forced to install Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari by default alongside Internet Explorer on new Windows-based PCs."

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Re:And What of the Others? by Richard_at_work · 2009-01-26 04:08 · Score: 0, Redundant

Who maintains the source list for this package manager? What requirements should be in place for addition of another package? What punishments should be in place if $MAINTAINER doesn't update the source list within a set amount of time? Who gets to decide what browsers get onto the list?

Or in other words, most of the same issues as you pointed out...