____/ Linonut on Sunday 09 March 2008 14:44 : \____
> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> Interview with Carlos Piana
>>
>> http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/030808-piana.html
>
> What was Microsoft's strategy? How did the company defend itself in
> this case?
>
> The general strategy appears to me, frankly, to be a damage control
> and delay one. They have hired possibly the best representation money
> can buy in Europe, people that have made the history of EC law.
> Luckily also on our side of the wall there was no shortage of
> brilliant and prepared minds. So the strategy was well served by a
> good display of tactical maneuvers to make the case as complex and
> costly as possible. The sheer volume of the paperwork is itself
> staggering: it takes almost a scaffold in my office. But I must also
> say that the opponent was reasonably fair in avoiding dirty tricks
> and ambushes.
>
> . . .
>
> But nothing was more shocking to me than hearing that they could not
> release the specifications because... they do not exist. They had to
> call back retired engineers or scroll through millions of lines of
> source code to find out what the heck they have done with the
> protocols.
>
> Part of our value added in the case was to show how this all was
> nonsense.
Microsoft also has lobbyists in key positions in Europe. They use proxies, so
it's not just a question of hiring lawyers. I could dig up many references to
prove this.
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