[Am-info] Microsoft to offer concessions in EC antitrust case

[John Poltorak]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 08:21:59PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:
> > From: Computerworld_Daily@Computerworld.com 
> > 
> > Microsoft to offer concessions in EC antitrust case
> > 
> > To try and settle its European antitrust case, Microsoft is offering to
> > grant rivals access to technical information on its Kerberos encryption
> > system and an Internet standard known as Common Internet File System.
> 
> WHAT??  CIFS is not any kind of an internet standard.  That is 
> Microsofts' file sharing protocol.  More bullshit.

It staggers me that anyone could possibly refer to Microsoft offering 
'concessions'. They are the guilty party. They should be punished severely 
for their misdeeds. It's like some thief defrauding someone of vast 
amounts of money conceding to pay some of it back.

What nonesense! 

Why does the press make it look as though Microsoft are doing everyone a 
favour?

I also seem to remember that Keberos was an open Internet standard years 
before Microsoft came along and messed it up. Why would anyone want to use 
their version of it anyway? Microsoft is the last company that should have 
anything to do with security standards. You only have to look at their 
track record to see how little they understand about the term.

 
> -- 
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@3times25.net

-- 
John