__/ [ BearItAll ] on Tuesday 13 March 2007 09:43 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft finds a few overlooked interoperability protocols
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>> | Microsoft Corp is still finding communications protocols that it
>> | should be licensing to rivals almost five years after it was
>> | ordered to do so following the US antitrust decision.
>> |
>> | The details are revealed in the latest joint status report,
>> | which outlines the US Department of Justice's concerns that
>> | the company is still finding protocols that should have been
>> | included in the Microsoft Communications Protocol Program
>> | but were "inadvertently overlooked".
>> `----
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=41E367D5-2E83-4928-A677-83A156A0FE61
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> The way I hear it, it could be that they are using many many undocumented
> APIs from programmers who left a long time ago, or from code they got in a
> buy-em-take-the-code-and-dump-em raid.
It seems like a very convenient excuse. :-)
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