
Microsoft’s draft licence, step by step
Microsoft is guilty of breaking EU competition law, and has come up with a way to make amends. We dissect the resulting licence and find a very peculiar world indeed
In last year’s European Commission antitrust ruling against Microsoft, the software giant agreed to create a server interoperability licence that would allow rival makers of server software to write applications that can "achieve full interoperability" with Windows client and server operating systems on "reasonable and non-discriminatory terms". ZDNet UK Insight