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mobrien_12:
The EU has made their antitrust ruling.  

Apparently,  MS has to open up their API's.

MS is not happy.
The EU ruling is 300 pages long.  It and the MS response can be found at Groklaw

 
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From Groklaw:

...the Commission is telling MS to open up and share. It's their APIs, and they don't want to. Then they would actually have to improve their software instead of just imprisoning their customers. Didn't the most recent "independent" study say switching from Windows to GNU/Linux makes the TCO of Linux higher than just staying with Windows and upgrading? First they make it too costly to switch and then they say that extra cost is a good reason not to switch. I get it. It's not a bug. It's a feature.

And the economy will suffer if they have to quit this? I don't think so, guys. Microsoft's economy might suffer, but the rest of us will get along very nicely. I guess you could sum it up that Microsoft has been bad for so long, they feel an entitlement. So, no remorse. No mea culpa. Instead, this is going to go to court, it seems. That will be a fun case to follow closely.

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