Groklaw is a website that discusses legal issues open source software. This posting caught my attention. It is about a paper from European Committee for Interoperable Systems that provides brief history of the anti-competitive practices of Microsoft.
It introduces the concept of middleware, which explains why there is a browser war even though no one ever pays for a browser.
It also gives a great description of Microsoft's systematic method of using its monopoly on the desktop operating system to attack competitors.
This is the Groklaw article...
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090421111327711
This is the European Committee for Interoperable Systems paper...
http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepaper.pdf
Thursday, April 30, 2009
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