If you give in to one DRM-type, it means you are more welcome to accept the next one. Some people might say that it isn't like that but it does not matter, the media industri and the lawmakers sees it as acceptable.
This is not only about Microsoft. This is about multiinternational companies supressing smaller companies for their own profit. In this case Microsoft is locking third parties outside of the software market for servers and desktopts using OS from Microsoft.
By reading your comment it seams like you like companies and not goverments to rule. In that case, why do we have a goverments at all? You comment tax money, what should they be used for if not to protect the goverments citiziens and corporations. Sure there will always be "more important" issues to spend the money on but that doesn't mean that they won't talk back to Microsoft just because it costs more than if it where a small company.
They have three options
* If stationed outside of US don't bother
* Exclude the codec
* Pay the money
Or maybe AT/T doesn't care about the opensource community because they can't collect any money there. Best option would be to let the opensource projects to roam free.
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If you give in to one DRM-type, it means you are more welcome to accept the next one. Some people might say that it isn't like that but it does not matter, the media industri and the lawmakers sees it as acceptable.
This is not only about Microsoft. This is about multiinternational companies supressing smaller companies for their own profit. In this case Microsoft is locking third parties outside of the software market for servers and desktopts using OS from Microsoft. By reading your comment it seams like you like companies and not goverments to rule. In that case, why do we have a goverments at all? You comment tax money, what should they be used for if not to protect the goverments citiziens and corporations. Sure there will always be "more important" issues to spend the money on but that doesn't mean that they won't talk back to Microsoft just because it costs more than if it where a small company.
They have three options * If stationed outside of US don't bother * Exclude the codec * Pay the money Or maybe AT/T doesn't care about the opensource community because they can't collect any money there. Best option would be to let the opensource projects to roam free.
They already tried that, Microsoft used Mozilla/4.0 so the only difference is to switch to a Mozilla/5.0 "compatible" browser ;)