Microsoft’s long held and well deserved reputation as a government eater has perished on the sword of the most unlikely and tremulous dragon-slayer: the EU Competition Commission. M$ have finally yielded to the Competition Commission and will make no appeal against the decision of the European Court in 2004.
This is a qualified victory for consumers: Microsoft will now have to engage with those wishing to interface to its systems and thus permit consumers to resist being locked into a proprietary system. On the down side while FLOSS users won’t have to pay others will be put in the position of rewarding Microsoft by paying a significant licence fee.
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