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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
The OOXML fiasco showed them once again that Microsoft is a criminal
organisation.
Recent:
European Commission to increase its use of Open Source
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| The European Commission will take a more pro-active approach to its own use
| of Open Source and Open Standards. Xavier Heymans highlights the importance
| of a real and mature collaboration with communities where IT providers share
| their developments and adopt an "open source" philosophy.
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http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/ec008
EU: Europarlement testing Ubuntu, OpenOffice and Firefox
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| The European Parliament's IT department is testing the use of GNU/Linux
| distribution Ubuntu, OpenOffice, Firefox and other Open Source applications,
| the British MEP James Nicholson explained last week in a letter to Italian
| MEP Marco Cappato.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7565
Is Microsoft Now Banned from EU Contracts?
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=697&blogid=14
Euro MP thinks Microsoft should be banned from government contracts
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/10/member-eu-parliament-asks
Green MEP says Microsoft should be excluded from EU contract awarding procedure
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/106338/from/rss09
MEPs Question Microsoft's Eligibility for Gov't Projects
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| The Commission, which has not responded yet, is allowed a few weeks to reply.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144591/meps_question_microsofts_eligibility_for_govt_projects.html
Software wars
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| Allegations of committee-stuffing, the outcome of votes overridden by
| political appointees, a final decision that many involved consider tainted:
| this may sound like a discredited election in some third world country. But
| it is actually a description of an ugly fight over international technical
| standards that wrapped up this week. Microsoft came out on top, but at the
| cost of tarnishing its reputation and the credibility of an important
| back-room process that oils the wheels of many global industries.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c9743360-01a8-11dd-a323-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fc9743360-01a8-11dd-a323-000077b07658.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerworlduk.com%2Ftool
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