So anyone hear or get a copy of the leaked Microsoft 102-page document? Anyone doing anything about it?
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Microsoft Resisting Licensing of Its Code
December 4, 2001
By PAUL MELLER
BRUSSELS, Dec. 3 - Microsoft (news/quote) is trying to head off demands that it give rivals licenses to use the basic code of its Windows operating systems as a way of settling antitrust action against it in Europe.
In a confidential written response to the European Commission's allegations that the company had abused Windows' market dominance, Microsoft wrote that imposing compulsory licensing would violate international copyright law, according to a person with a copy of the response.
The 102-page document was given to other companies involved in the litigation, including Sun Microsystems (news/quote), when it was filed with the commission. Sun's complaint to European competition regulators in 1998 led to the commission's investigation of Microsoft. . . .
Microsoft's senior counsel in Europe, John Frank, declined to comment on any details in the leaked document. "I thought this was supposed to be a confidential document," he said angrily. "I don't think it helps anyone to have selected quotes leaked."
Mr. Frank said nothing had changed since last week, when Microsoft changed its mind and called off a hearing with European regulators and the complainants in the case.
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So again, anyone hear or get a copy of the leaked Microsoft 102-page document? Anyone doing anything about it?
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