Verily I say unto thee, that High Plains Thumper spake thusly:
> Just saw this, finally in:
>
> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5140413.html
>
> [quote]
> Sept. 17, 2007, 4:33AM
> EU Court Upholds Microsoft's $613M Fine
Will the gangsters ever actually pay up though?
Also, the mere existence of the so-called "N" versions of Windows (sans
WMP, etc.) does not necessarily mean the OEM's will /deploy/ that
version. The public gets what the OEM wants, and the OEMs "want"
whatever Microsoft /tells/ them to want, so if the OEMs choose to ignore
the "N" versions, then everyone buying a new Wintel box just gets the
standard version of Windows regardless. How could this be enforced?
WRT interoperability, how will this decision affect SMB2? According to
Jeremy Allison, Microsoft went to considerable effort to "fsck with
SAMBA", and then subsequently tied patent restrictions to the actual
license, to try to make it impossible to release SMB2 extensions in GPL
code. Does the EU court's decision have any bearing on that? Will it
make the SAMBA team's life any easier?
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K.
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