Microsoft to carry out EU ruling

[Johnsie]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7056288.stm

will this have any advantages for Linux?

[Johnsie]

"Further, Microsoft will cut the price it charges for worldwide licenses and patents to less than 7% of previous levels. "

Does this mean the price of Windows will go down or just the price of licensing the patents?

[sanderella]

Ah you beat me to it! Good news, let's hope they will comply with all the demands of the EU commission.

[Johnsie]

I think we both know they probably wont :-)

Hopefully they wont release some watered down information and try to pass that off as compliance.

[Anessen]

Microsoft as an organisation opposes Open Source. They want to be able to point at Linux et al when there is a court case and say "LOOK! COMPETITION! NO MONOPOLY HERE!". Therefore, helping the Open Source community out some is beneficial to them, as long as they don't give enough information away so that it actually does benefit us.

[thx11381974]

Microsoft as an organisation opposes Open Source. They want to be able to point at Linux et al when there is a court case and say "LOOK! COMPETITION! NO MONOPOLY HERE!". Therefore, helping the Open Source community out some is beneficial to them, as long as they don't give enough information away so that it actually does benefit us.

They give Apple help for the same reason.

[Kimm]

Creepy!

I just heard this on the radio when I noticed this thread :shock:

Good news though.