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Microsoft said to agree to EU concessions
A European Union competition commissioner said Microsoft agreed to concessions, and won't pursue an antitrust appeal with the EU.
As part of an agreement, Microsoft rivals will be charged a nominal one-time fee of about about $14,280 to get technical Windows server information.
According to commissioner Neelie Kroes, open-source software developers will be able to use the technical information, under terms "that allow every recipient of the resulting software to copy, modify and redistribute it in accordance with the open source business model." Microsoft also agreed not to pursue claims against open-source developers for violation of patents related to the server protocols, Kroes told reporters.
The concessions are "a change in how Microsoft has been acting," but more details are needed before reaching conclusions about their potential effectiveness, said Shane Coughlan, coordinator of the Freedom Task Force inside the Free Software Foundation-Europe in a comment on Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog.
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/124187.asp
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