atw: Re: Article: Former Hacker Irks Microsoft In EU Dispute

Isn't this a bit like saying:
My daughter has been pushing her tricycle all over the carpet in our
front room and we now want her to take the 9:16 8-car 6 MegaWatt train
out of Central?
Brian.

Stuart offered:
   "With their orders to Microsoft, the regulators are aiming to level
the
   global
   playing field and make it easier for rivals' inexpensive, easily
   modified
   "open source" software to interact seamlessly with Microsoft's
   more-expensive,
   less-flexible products.

   ... the commission fined Microsoft almost $600 million and ordered it
to
   produce
   a kind of instruction manual for rivals hoping to write
   Microsoft-compatible
   software for the powerful computers, or servers, that are hubs in
office
   networks.

   Last year, Mr. Barrett studied the manual Microsoft produced for four
   days, tried
   to use it to write programs and, in December, pronounced it "totally
   unusable."
   "There is apparently no structure and no logic in the whole
   documentation,"
    he wrote in his report." 



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