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Default [Windows IT Pro] US Anti-Trust officials praise MS
Here's some positive news about MS and their response to US anti trust investigations.

http://windowsitpro.com/article/arti...licensing.html

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As part of a regularly scheduled status report on the software giant's 2002 US antitrust settlement, US federal and state antitrust officials recently praised Microsoft for its efforts to lower the cost of royalties associated with licensing its technologies to third parties.
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this thread is gonna see a lot of hate...
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this thread is gonna see a lot of hate...
Yeah, people should hate MS because they're doing the right thing and following the rules set before them.
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Some people always manage to turn it around.

Anyway I'm glad that they are doing the right thing.

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Wait, efforts? royalties?
You need to do efforts to reduce the royalties you charge??? Since when?

And yes, I turned it around =) I don't like how they worded it though.
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Well as long as they follow the rules.....though some of the open-source fetishists wouldn't rest until MS is out of business......
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