svn commit: samba-web r748 - in trunk/news/advocacy: .

[deryck at samba.org]

Author: deryck
Date: 2005-07-15 14:43:05 +0000 (Fri, 15 Jul 2005)
New Revision: 748

WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba-web&rev=748

Log:
Adding news story on an article ZDNet UK is running
with lots of great quotes from Volker.

deryck

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   trunk/news/advocacy/ms_pointless_concessions.html


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+    <h3><a name="ms_pointless_concessions">Volker Lendecke on Pointless Concessions</a></h3> 
+        
+    <div class="article">
+      <p><a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/">ZDNet UK</a> is running a story
+      on the antitrust concessions Microsoft has offered in the EU case.  
+      Samba Team member Volker Lendecke is quoted throughout the piece and 
+      offers some nice insight into the difficulties Free/Open Source Software 
+      developers have with Microsoft's recent royalty-free licence proposal.</p>
+
+      <p>Volker sees the information Microsoft is making available as 
+      "completely pointless."  The article continues:</p>
+
+      <blockquote>For example, the royalty-free licence provides basic
+      information on how a Microsoft server opens a file. But information 
+      on how to manage file privileges is not included under the royalty-free 
+      licence, which means that developers cannot write code that can open a 
+      file held on a Windows file server, unless they sign up to the 
+      royalty-bearing licence that contains information on file privilege 
+      protocols, said Lendecke.</blockquote> 
+
+      <p>For more on this, please the complete article, 
+      <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39209007,00.htm">Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'</a>.</p>
+    </div>
+        
+