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EU monopoly watchdogs, are you awake?EU monopoly watchdogs, are you awake?Posted Sep 11, 2003 5:46 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753)Parent article: An opening for OpenOffice.org Microsoft's IRM also depends on its server-based Rights Management Services (RMS). This means that any company wanting to adopt IRM is also forced to adopt Microsoft at the server. It doesn't preclude companies using a mixture of Microsoft and Linux servers, but it does mean that organizations that have only adopted Microsoft at the desktop would be forced to make additional investments in Microsoft software. I think the EU competition commissioner should be very interested in this! The ongoing investigation in EU is primarily centered on the complaint that Microsoft uses its desktop monopoly to invade servers as well. This IRM idea involves precisely that. Office 2003 desktop software has features that simply don't work with anything else than Microsoft server OS.
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