EU Threatens to Fine Microsoft for Lack of Innovation

Regeneration · Posted by Regeneration on March 1st, 2007, 11:32 PM

In what could be an historic first, the European Commission's new statement of objections to Microsoft for alleged non-compliance with its March 2004 antitrust ruling forwards a novel theory: not that the interoperability information the EC demanded is incomplete, but instead that the communications protocols it describes are not innovative enough for Microsoft to deserve charging royalties for its use.

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**Posted by Unixlord on March 2nd, 2007, 06:58 PM**

I think Europe as a whole should get to kick MS directly in the Nads