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Microsoft Beefs Up Interoperability Agreements
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| Essentially, companies can sue if they think
| Microsoft is not following through with
| providing proper API documentation, according
| to a blog post by Groklaw, a frequent Microsoft
| critic and a site devoted to software legal
| issues. The Groklaw post noted that nothing has
| really changed for commercial software
| companies working with open source software
| under the GNU General Public License because
| Microsoft's interoperability agreement appears
| to restrict commercial distribution of software
| without royalty agreements first being in
| place.
|
| The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)
| backed that view.
|
| "The patent commitments are clearly
| insufficient, because they don't allow
| commercial exploitation," said Carlo Piana,
| FSFE's legal counsel, in a released statement.
| "This keeps out competition from Free Software,
| which in many areas is the biggest competitor
| to Microsoft's programs."
|
| The European Committee for Interoperable
| Systems (ECIS) was also skeptical.
|
| "Whether the public undertaking will create a
| more level competitive playing field where open
| source software is not subject to Microsoft
| patent FUD [fear, uncertainty, doubt], as has
| been the case in the past, is not yet clear,"
| the ECIS declared in a released statement
| (PDF).
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http://mcpmag.com/articles/2009/12/18/microsoft-beefs-up-interoperability-agreements.aspx
Recent:
Linux Community to Redmond - Do The Right Thing.
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| We've known for a while now that Microsoft, or someone at Microsoft buzzes
| our blog and website from time to time. And yes...we have a mole...did you
| expect anything different from us?
|
| They've also spent some time at the Lindependence site. Gratifying but
| ultimately, not really a big deal. Not for one silly little website.
|
| But when you have several sites banging the same drum and that drumbeat
| begins to resound with echoes that are impossible to ignore, you get results.
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http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/11/linux-community-to-redmond-do-right.html
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