ArchM wrote:
"It provides legal certainty now as to what you can and you can't do in relation to information you have to make available to companies who compete in your environment to enable them to be a viable competitor," he added.
That's the silliest thing I've ever heard. Now, I know I'm going to get a scolding for this, but why should MS have to give it's competitors information about it's product so that they can better compete?
If MS puts the money and the manpower into developing something, then why should somebody that didn't reap any benefits from it?
Because MS has used illegal business practices to crush competitors and gain the amount of market dominance where it is impossible to compete any longer. So now to remedy the situation, MS must provide SOME of their code that will allow other companies to develop programs that can compete with PARTS of the MS monopoly.
It is a shame that the proper remedy was not imposed by the U.S. legal system, which should have found MS guilty of the illegal business practices that allowed them to become the monopoly that they now are, and then they should have broken MS up into separate parts, just like they did to AT&T (the phone company) many years ago. MS should have been taken DOWN!!!
