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Microsoft usual fear-mongering.Microsoft usual fear-mongering.Posted Jun 24, 2005 11:20 UTC (Fri) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)Parent article: Microsoft Puts Roadblock in Front of Open-Sourcing Avalon and Indigo (eWeek)
This is just Microsoft usual fear-mongering.
There is ample legal precedent saying that API are not copyrightable, MS will get in antitrust trouble by claiming it is (especially in the EU), and mono-backer Novell is not shy to engage in legal battle with MS.
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Microsoft usual fear-mongering. Posted Jun 24, 2005 14:36 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Thanks, I thought nobody was going to say it! Regardless of all the "I told you so"'s in the world, what Microsoft is doing is probably illegal, definitely immoral and deeply unfair. Mono is only looking for interoperability with some .NET interfaces, and should therefore have our support if they decide to go ahead.As Stallman might say, it's our freedom that is in the firing line once again: freedom to write software that provides certain services; freedom to write an alternative implementation to a library when the current one does not fit our needs; freedom to choose software provider for an API. First it's .NET, then it's WS-I, until you find it's POSIX.
Microsoft usual fear-mongering. Posted Jun 24, 2005 16:09 UTC (Fri) by jhardin@impsec.org (guest, #15045) [Link] > ... what Microsoft is doing is probably illegal, definitely immoral and> deeply unfair.
And, sadly, they have the clout to get away with it.
The ineffective sanctions resulting from the last monopoly conviction showed that MS is too big for the DoJ to punish.
Microsoft usual fear-mongering. Posted Jun 25, 2005 2:42 UTC (Sat) by musicon (subscriber, #4739) [Link] >The ineffective sanctions resulting from the last monopoly conviction > showed that MS is too big for the DoJ to punish.It has nothing (or very little) to do with MS being "too big" — simply timing. Did you forget about the abrupt about-face the DoJ did almost immediately after the presidential change? If we had less business-friendly politicians, I suspect that MS would by now be much like the Bells back in the 80s.
Microsoft usual fear-mongering. Posted Jun 26, 2005 23:39 UTC (Sun) by njhurst (guest, #6022) [Link] Perhaps MS knew that they just had to wait it out? If that were the case they would use delaying tactics to draw it out until there was a change of government.
Microsoft usual fear-mongering. Posted Jun 24, 2005 16:11 UTC (Fri) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link] what Microsoft is doing is probably illegal, definitely immoral and deeply unfair.In other words, business as ussual.
Microsoft usual fear-mongering. Posted Jun 27, 2005 1:41 UTC (Mon) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link] > API are not copyrightableBut the 'inventions' required to implement the APIs are *patentable*. They didn't say explicitly 'copyright', just 'Intellectual Property', which (as RMS keeps pointing out) is a blanket term which is very easy to misinterpret. You can't get in antitrust trouble when your monopoly is explicitly granted by legislation.
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