Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> EU Court Will Hear Groups, Vendors in MS Antitrust Appeal
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> | Trade groups the Association of Competitive Technology (ACT) and the
> | Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) will side with
> | Microsoft, while IBM, Oracle and Red Hat will help the Commission defend
> | itself in the court appeal.
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> | The Free Software Foundation Europe, the Samba Team of open-source
> | software programmers, the Software and Information Industry Association
> | (SIIA), the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) will
> | also turn up in support of the Commission, the court said in a statement
> | released earlier this week.
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> | Microsoft failed to honor this order for three years after the 2004
> | ruling, employing delaying tactics despite being threatened with further
> | fines. The Commission imposed an additional ?600 million in fines
> | because of the delays.
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> http://www.pcworld.com/article/155347/.html?tk=rss_news
Micoshaft and friends should no longer be treated with resepect.
Google is now close to 60% the size of micoshaft
and getting bigger. These are the new sunshine companies
that built their empires on open source.
So its important they are invited and their voices are heard louder
and more clearer than dying companies that are poisoning
economies with their toxic lectures on rights, DRM, lockins,
back handers, and the rest that reduces choice and increases
costs to customers at the expense of free trade and
freedoms to trade.
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