Dear MA, Please Note: EU Commission Threatens MS With $2.4 Million Daily Fines (Groklaw) [LWN.net]

Groklaw examines the threat of a lawsuit against Microsoft by the EU, regarding the availability of standards information. "Dear Massachusetts (Governor Romney, Secretary Galvin, Senator Hart, et al):Are you watching this? Microsoft, as you may have heard, has been under pressure in Europe to make their APIs available to its competition for interoperability purposes. Now, so far, that has meant only that they have to do so for non-Linux competitors, as they were able to achieve a carve-out that leaves Linux and all FOSS out in the cold during the appeal. For all their other competitors in the server space, they were ordered to "to disclose complete and accurate interface documentation which would allow non-Microsoft work group servers to achieve full interoperability with Windows PCs and servers"."

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Here are some of the dangers spelled out for the rest of us.

Posted Dec 24, 2005 19:04 UTC (Sat) by TxtEdMacs (subscriber, #5983) [Link]

Tom Adelstein wrote both and they cover the same threats, the second is the more condensed version, but neither gives one the feeling all is well.

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/50521/index.html

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=50557

Let's hope the future reality is not so dire, however, to be told is to be fore warned.