Red Hat’s Szulik comments on EU vs. Microsoft
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| Red Hat dropped me a note this morning in response to the European’s
| Commission’s smack down of Microsoft. I don’t know if Red Hat CEO Matthew
| Szulik was toasting champagne while he fired off this response, but it would
| have totally made sense if he was.
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http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/09/17/red-hats-szulik-comments-on-eu-vs-microsoft/
Red Hat Advocates True Interoperability and Competition
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| "Microsoft continues to deny open source providers access to and use of the
| interoperability information that now clearly must be provided. Red Hat
| strongly encourages the Commission to take the steps required to assure rapid
| implementation of a remedy that gives broad and equitable access to Microsoft
| interoperability information to all competitors, including open source
| providers. Red Hat firmly believes that competition, not questionable patent
| and trade secret claims, drives innovation and creates greater consumer
| value," said Michael Cunningham, Executive Vice President and General Counsel
| at Red Hat.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070918/20070918005511.html?.v=1
Related:
Microsoft Must Share Code With Rivals
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| Microsoft lost its appeal of a European antitrust order Monday that obliges
| the technology giant to share communications code with rivals...
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070917/D8RN77CG0.html
Halloween Memo I Confirmed and Microsoft's History on Standards
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| By the way, if you are by any chance trying to figure out Microsoft's policy
| toward standards, particularly in the context of ODF-EOXML, that same
| Microsoft page is revelatory, Microsoft's answer to what the memo meant when
| it said that Microsoft could extend standard protocols so as to deny
| Linux "entry into the market":
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| Q: The first document talked about extending standard protocols as a way
| to "deny OSS projects entry into the market." What does this mean?
|
| A: To better serve customers, Microsoft needs to innovate above standard
| protocols. By innovating above the base protocol, we are able to deliver
| advanced functionality to users. An example of this is adding
| transactional support for DTC over HTTP. This would be a value-add and
| would in no way break the standard or undermine the concept of standards,
| of which Microsoft is a significant supporter. Yet it would allow us to
| solve a class of problems in value chain integration for our Web-based
| customers that are not solved by any public standard today. Microsoft
| recognizes that customers are not served by implementations that are
| different without adding value; we therefore support standards as the
| foundation on which further innovation can be based.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070127202224445
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