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Title: News: Microsoft has 8 days to show Vista source code - Punishment announced Post by: nico on 15.11.06, 14:32:07 Microsoft has time until Thanksgiving, to provide relevant source code of the next Windows Operating System, Vista, to rival firms. If not, Microsoft could get punished with a daily fine of f up to 3 million euros (US$3.85 million), says Reuters (http://today.reuters.com/news/articlebusiness.aspx?type=ousiv&storyID=2006-11-15T051536Z_01_L15543238_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESSPRO-MICROSOFT-EU-DC.XML&from=business).
Title: Re: News: Microsoft has 8 days to show Vista source code - Punishment announced Post by: Rumak18 on 16.11.06, 07:52:23 I did not know, that a concern, has to show freely his source code for a program. Ok, this case is a special one, but what is with patent protection? Where have you found this statement?
Title: Re: News: Microsoft has 8 days to show Vista source code - Punishment announced Post by: nico on 16.11.06, 08:34:43 Hi Rumak,
i've linked my source, Reuters, last word :-) It's about security issues, to give other security programs a chance to work with the new windows. German news about this at tagesschau.de (http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185,OID6099024,00.html).
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