On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Heinz Diehl <htd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We're not. Micr*soft dominates, and they can virtually do anything > they like. Not if the US DOJ and the Federal Trade Comission gets involved. Remember the US-DOJ trial with judge Thomas Penfield Jackson found MSFT GUILTY. The fact that later a new administration came in and allowed them to turn the breakup into a set of ´remedies´ which included opening up MSFT protocols to third parties (which for instance, allowed Samba NTLM authentication to interoperate with MSFT´s) is besides the point... Microsoft is a convicted monopolist, and as such there´s a thin line they must walk on... I´m not a lawyer but I guess some antitrust lawyer could conclude that this is an abuse of dominant position. See for instance the recent MSFT-Nokia deal, now an antitrust lawyer says: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-balto/nokia-microsoft_b_1582227.html "The European Commission will hopefully open an investigation and the U.S. regulators will follow suit." I hope the EFF, the CDT or other advocacy groups get involved to get the FTC briefed about the implications of this. Just my $0.02 FC -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
