Department Of Justice Supports Microsoft

Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
edited February 2006 in Science & Tech
In a Joint Status Report released late yesterday, the US Justice Dept., writing also on behalf of states such as New York who remain plaintiffs in the ongoing antitrust matter with Microsoft, expressed its support for the company's efforts to comply with a European Commission directive.
In the closest thing to an open letter to the EC that one could expect without explicitly addressing it to "Brussels, Belgium," the DOJ's Antitrust Division, led by Renata B. Hesse, writes for the US District Court, "As the Court may be aware from recent press reports, within the past two weeks Microsoft has expressed to both Plaintiffs and enforcement officials in the European Union a willingness to license its Windows server source code at no additional cost to licensees of each jurisdiction's respective protocol licensing program. This proposal from Microsoft resulted, in part, from efforts to address Plaintiffs' concerns - expressed in Plaintiffs' January 23, 2006 filing - about Microsoft's ability to translate the TC's [technical committee's] work on the technical documentation into improved documentation for MCPP [Microsoft Communications Protocol Program] licensees in a timely fashion."
Source: TGDaily

Comments

  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited February 2006
    what a bunch of hard-asses over in that European Union. I get some of the Microsoft anti-trust stuff but it just seems like they're being over the top and ridiculous. Too bad Microsoft can't just say well we're going to stop selling and licensing our products in Europe. Maybe they should, they wouldn't have to pay all the BS fines and deal with all the ridiculousness that's being imposed upon them and then all the open source hippies can throw a party as well, it's win-win. but of course they would lose crazy amounts of revenue and all that... im just saying though.
  • madmatmadmat
    edited February 2006
    Trust me, after the uproar caused by everyone impacted by M$ pulling out of the EU the EU courts would be back peddling so hard that all the windmills in Holland would run backwards...
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited February 2006
    madmat wrote:
    Trust me, after the uproar caused by everyone impacted by M$ pulling out of the EU the EU courts would be back peddling so hard that all the windmills in Holland would run backwards...

    :thumbsup:
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited February 2006
    Camman wrote:
    what a bunch of hard-asses over in that European Union. I get some of the Microsoft anti-trust stuff but it just seems like they're being over the top and ridiculous. Too bad Microsoft can't just say well we're going to stop selling and licensing our products in Europe.

    Yes. that would be great, that way games would have to be released for Linux and MacOS instead (either would port to the other easily) and then we wouldn't have to use this ****ty OS and everything that entails and it would also mean we don't have to deal with morons so much as they would then have to use Macs or get a clue and use Linux which would require them to actually use their minds for once.
  • Unknown
    edited February 2006
    I'm all for it. Maybe it would give some publicity to linux and actually get some games out for it. I wish they would port the games to linux now. and other popular apps such as photoshop and macromedia (adobe) studio.
  • Unknown
    edited February 2006
    I'm not a guest. Where is the record of my registration?
  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited February 2006
    Enverex wrote:
    Yes. that would be great, that way games would have to be released for Linux and MacOS instead (either would port to the other easily) and then we wouldn't have to use this ****ty OS and everything that entails and it would also mean we don't have to deal with morons so much as they would then have to use Macs or get a clue and use Linux which would require them to actually use their minds for once.

    nobody's forcing you to "use that ****ty OS" if you really hated Windows so much, you wouldn't use it, end of story. I'm tired of people copping out saying "oh well they dont make my applications for linux or OS X!!!" well it's definitly not going to change if you just keep "dealing with it" by using an OS that you supposedly hate
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited February 2006
    Camman wrote:
    nobody's forcing you to "use that ****ty OS" if you really hated Windows so much, you wouldn't use it, end of story. I'm tired of people copping out saying "oh well they dont make my applications for linux or OS X!!!" well it's definitly not going to change if you just keep "dealing with it" by using an OS that you supposedly hate

    Yes, they are. If I want to play ANY of the games that get released (well, with the exception of 1 or two, litterally) I HAVE to use Windows.

    I mean sure, I could stop using Windows, lots of people have... but that doesn't seem to be having any effect on game makers as enough people want to use Windows for them to make money off it.

    Sucks :mean:
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited February 2006
    Who is "forcing" you to play the games? :cool:
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited February 2006
    Well, considering it is the only sort of social life I have....
    Fine, I don't have to play games.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited February 2006
    Enverex wrote:
    Well, considering it is the only sort of social life I have....
    .

    Dude I hate to break the news to you but... Games are not a social life. They are not even a excuse for a social life. Or an excuse to NOT have a social life!

    Get out... Do something with yourself. Back away from the keyboard !

    GET A HOT GIRLFRIEND !

    You will never regret this advice.

    M
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited February 2006
    HAHAHA, you make it sound like I have a chance of doing that.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited February 2006
    everybody has a chance believe it or not.

    But its up to you to try.

    Tex
  • IamMrRay
    edited February 2006
    Yea man, believe me, ITS POSSIBLE! you just gotta work up a self-esteem and be nice and stuff and the world is yours!
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited February 2006
    And that's it for today's Moment of Pop Psychology. Now back to our scheduled thread on the DOJ and MSFT.


    :bigggrin:


    (no slams on any of the above posters :smiles: )
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