[QCLUG] From the Financial Times: Microsoft concedes defeat in EU battle

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 08:11:28PM -0500, DMichael Burns wrote:
> Interesting article.  One point in the article that caught my eye is:

> "Under Monday's settlement, Microsoft said it would allow open-source
> software developers access to inter-operability information for work-group
> servers used by businesses and other large organisations."

There have been any number of rulings over the years requiring Microsoft to
allow interoperability, and yet the only real interopability has come from
the independent reverse engineering work of the Samba Team...

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