antitrust cases wrapped up in patent clothes. |
Any such settlement should not result in the closure of the EU (Microsoft) case. The Commission should, and we expect it will, proceed vigorously with its case against Microsoft, |
But it's more than money that's at stake during this hearing. |
For the last eight years, the commission has been extremely careful to follow every procedural rule to the letter. From a legal point of view, everything I know indicates the commission has been very correct. |
He’s very good at pulling rabbits out of hats, but the rabbit disappears in the end. |
In his final summing up he talked about ways forward by identifying the problems Microsoft must solve. That's not a plan. |
In other words, exactly what the commission predicted would occur as a result of Microsoft's illegal bundling behavior has occurred: Real has been marginalized, ... The lesson is that the commission is right to have found Microsoft to have engaged in illegal conduct, but that it erred in taking so long to decide the case and in imposing an ineffective remedy. |
It prevents them from achieving full interoperability. |
It's a typical Microsoft tactic to draw things out as much as possible, and in a way it's working because E.C.I.S. is so busy working on the appeal that it hasn't had time to submit a fresh complaint against Microsoft. |
It's merely, entirely and completely a public relations ploy to try to divert attention from the extremely strong case the commission has against Microsoft for failure to comply with the commission's decision. |
It’s very clear that there has to be solid documentation in place...The specs have to be fully documented. |
Leaving aside the copyright issue, the source code is simply not needed. |
Market developments have validated the Commission's concerns. It is vital that the court confirms the Media Player decision because it provides a legal precedent that could be used to prevent Microsoft continuing its abusive bundling practices in future. |
Microsoft are trying to turn this into an intellectual property case when it's not. |
Microsoft has been playing games with the Commission from the beginning, but now it realizes its time is up. |