[LINK] EC erects toll booth for Microsoft's open source rivals

[Howard Lowndes]

http://www.theregister.com/content/4/36520.html

El Reg raises an interesting argument about the effect of the EU's
instructions in the M$ case.  The question now is whether it is M$'
interest to appeal the EU decision, or can they/will they be allowed to,
appeal only those parts that they don't like.

[...]

"Because Microsoft will be allowed to pursue royalty revenue from the
APIs it publishes, Jeremy Allison says that the projects such as Samba,
which he jointly leads, may face a prohibitive hurdle. Microsoft's
competitors use software such as Samba to access file and print services
on Windows machines."

[...]

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