On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:48:51PM +0100, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: > > Groklaw story with transcript from Sean Daly of the post announcement press > Q&A with Neelie Kroes of the EC: > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071022114731199 > > EC's press statement: > http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/07/1567&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en > > EC's FAQ: > http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/07/420&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en > > An NY Times article quoting our own Georg: > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/technology/22cnd-soft.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin > > and MS's PR: > http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2007/oct07/10-22MSStatement.mspx
I read the events as Neelie Kroes having sold herself out. Microsoft Tax on information access: 10000 EUR Microsoft Tax on commercial distribution: 0.48% (hello Red Hat) No Microsoft Tax only for non-commercial (bye bye Free Software business) For added points: Comission still pretends Software Patents are valid How this can be good I don't know... Rui -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 4th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3173 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
