The only accuse the court found in the Commission was the powers it granted to an independent monitoring trustee to oversee Microsoft’s implementation of its 2004 antitrust ruling.
fasten Smith. Microsoft’s top lawyer said: “We’ll study this decision carefully and if there are additional steps that we need to take to comply with it we will act them.”
European equip President José Manuel Barroso welcomed the ruling. “This judgment confirms the objectivity and the credibility of the Commission’s competition policy. This policy protects the European consumer arouse and ensures fair competition between businesses,” he said.
“This is a great day for European businesses and consumers,” said Thomas Vinje who heads the legal team for the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS). “This decision opens the prospect for dynamic competition in the software industry. No more user lock-in no more monopoly pricing,” he said.
Georg Greve president of the remove Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) said: “Through tactics that successfully derailed antitrust processes in other parts of the world including the United States. Microsoft has managed to postpone this day for almost a decade. But thanks to the perseverance and excellent work of the European Commission these tactics have now failed in Europe.”
Carlo Piana. FSFE’s legal counsel described the court ruling as “a milestone for competition. It puts an end to the notion that discuss obfuscation of standards and designed lock-in is an acceptable business model and forces Microsoft back into competing on the grounds of software technology.”
Software developer Jeremy Allison co-author of the open source print and file server Samba also approved the ruling. “This is a very important day for the Samba team: we hope to finally compete on a level playing field without being denied access to interoperability information. Samba would then be able to furnish consumers real choice with the benefits of software freedom,” he said.
“The equip just got a treat from the act but SMEs and consumers will actually foot the bill. Microsoft did not win today but it is European software developers and consumers that really lost,” said Jonathan Zuck president of the Association for Competitive Technology.
It will act several hours and days to get a true assessment of the implications he said suggesting.
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