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US Antitrust Judge Examining Windows 7 Documents

Posted by samzenpus on from the fine-toothed-comb dept.

Anonymous writes "After more than 11 years, the US antitrust case involving Microsoft is still alive, with a federal judge overseeing enforcement of provisions under which the software giant must operate. And now, Judge Kollar-Kotelly says she'll take a close look at new technical documents involving Windows 7. This case began during the Windows 95 era."

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  1. Re:What if they had broken Microsoft up? by Anpheus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With open source libraries, you generally have to find the wheel before you can reuse it.

    Often people end up reinventing the wheel because they (a.) couldn't find one someone else made, (b.) found one, but it wasn't under licensing terms that they could use with their project, or (c.) found one, but the project lost its way and ended up incomplete with a lead developer who may well have been hit by a bus.

    Not saying closed source libraries are more helpful, plentiful, or accessible, but open source is not the panacea that zealots on Slashdot would like it to be.