[odf-discuss] Summary of Court of First Instance decision in Commission v. Microsoft

[Pete Harlow]

BBC story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6998272.stm

You can Digg it here:
http://digg.com/microsoft/Microsoft_loses_anti_trust_appeal

On 17/09/2007, marbux <marbux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> <http://curia.europa.eu/en/actu/communiques/cp07/aff/cp070063en.pdf>.
> Opinion itself is not up yet. Sounds like Microsoft lost on the interop and
> Windows Unmedia Edition issues, but won a decision that the Commission erred
> by appointing of a monitor of Microsoft compliance that could act
> independently of the Commission, with all monitoring expenses paid by
> Microsoft.
>
> It also sounds like the court declined to reach the issue of whether FOSS
> software must receive the interop information too.
>
> If the summary fairly captures the decision itself, I'd say that DG
> Competition will likely be off to the races on the ECIS complaint.
>
>
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