[huskerlug] Re: A SuSE founder returns
- From: GreyGeek <jkreps@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:33:01 -0600
Patrick wrote:
> [snip]
>
> "The Department of Justice is committed to full and
> vigorous enforcement of the Microsoft final judgment,"
> J. Bruce McDonald, Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
> said in the statement. "This extension will ensure
> that companies interested in licensing the
> communications protocols receive the benefit of
> complete and accurate documentation for the full
> period of time provided by the court's final
> judgment."
>
>
<rant>
Exactly what activities that Microsoft was doing before the trial are
they now not doing because of the trial?
The last three years of "monitoring" Microsoft's activities, where 2 of
the three "minitors" were of Microsoft's own choosing and they
"monitors" resided in offices on the Microsoft campus have resulted in
zero changes to Microsoft's behavior.
Microsoft, Dell, HP, Gateway and the rest still violate the
Clayton-Sherman act in that while supposedly selling a product that does
NOT depend on the Windows OS, these PC OEMs "force" most users to
purchase Windows. Some customers even think that it is illegal for the
OEMs to sell a computer without WIndows!
> In the past, both the Justice Department and
> Kollar-Kotelly have expressed concerns over the
> documentation that Microsoft has provided in its
> licensing effort. The company has already made several
> changes to the program. However, the Justice
> Department said that Microsoft has "concluded that a
> broader 'reset' of its efforts to improve the
> technical documentation would be more effective and
> efficient than continuing with the current approach."
>
>
Oh ya, like better "documentation" is going to give people more and
better choices for their OS software.
</rant>
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