Microsoft’ssudden embrace of interoperability and opennessis a boastful change of tune from the tightly puckered song of the retiring right ? Well , the EU says they ’ve heard it all before — at least four times . And while EU regulatorsbreathing down Ballmer ’s neckis undoubtedly one of the intellect for the shift — you do it , aside from remaining relevant and holding on to developers — they say it ’s not die to let Microsoft off the hook yet .
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Commission will swear whether Microsoft is abide by with EU antitrust rules , whether the principle announced today would cease any misdemeanour were they implemented in drill , and whether or not the principles announced today are in fact follow through in recitation . ”
Mark Taylor from Open Source Consortium suppose it ’s all a bunch of BS anyway :
“ Microsoft is saying it will give access to exposed APIs , however , but there are term … It ’s the same old account . Patent protection apply , and people can use the APIs commercially as long as they pay Microsoft a royalty . They are trying to enfold assailable third estate by attempt to apply their business model , which is all about have engineering , to open source . ”
If the cogent evidence is in the pudding , it looks like they ’re gon na need one bigass batch of Jell - O before everyone ’s satisfied there is n’t just a crappy Cosby jumper in this giftbox . [ CNET ]
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