Details of EU ruling on Microsoft Interoperability

[Wong Onn Chee]

I won't be so excited about this ruling.
You may refer to http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/22/2045203.

Disclose the specs and allowing it to be use in Open Source (i.e. Samba) 
are different issues.

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> Subject:
> Details of EU ruling on Microsoft Interoperability
> From:
> x x <tharg2kad2000 at yahoo.co.uk>
> Date:
> Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:50:07 +0000 (GMT)
> To:
> samba-technical at samba.org, tng-technical at lists.samba-tng.org
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> To:
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> in case you missed it:
> 
> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=133840&op=Reply&threshold=3&commentsort=0&tid=155&tid=123&mode=thread&pid=11174092
> 
> in this:
> 
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041222205501273
> 
> points 262, 285
> 
> this one is definitely worth reciting here:
> 
> 230
> According to Article 1(1) of the Decision, the
> information which Microsoft is ordered to disclose is
> ‘the complete and accurate specifications for all the
> protocols implemented in Windows Work Group Server
> Operating Systems and … used by Windows Work Group
> Servers to deliver file and print services and group
> and user administration services, including the
> Windows Domain Controller services, Active Directory
> services and Group Policy services, to Windows Work
> Group Networks’. Recital 999 to the Decision states
> that ‘[t]his includes both direct interconnection and
> interaction between a Windows work group server and a
> Windows Client PC, as well as interconnection and
> interaction between a Windows work group server and a
> Windows Client PC that is indirect and passes through
> another Windows work group server’.
> 
> yessss :)
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