Consumer Groups Go Anti Competitive On Microsoft
September 19th 2007 04:01
What’s even more disgusting is the fact the EU is charing Microsoft with the same behaviours companies like Apple make an actual business model out of. Microsoft is being asked to reveal its 'secrets' to allow third party developers to better compete with them on their own OS.
The very fact Microsoft provides an avenue for third parties to effectively compete with them is simply amazing, since when has Apple ever provided as much raw developer support as Microsoft has? Is it that Microsoft is dominating the industry that they get all this unfair treatment? By that line of thought we should start punishing every company that establishes market dominance in any field.
Microsoft has always made it clear that they have the developers interests in mind more so than their own. It's simple logic, when developers make great software for the Windows platform more people buy Windows. The reasoning for this rulling is based on a complete fallacy, since when could developers not be able to compete with Microsoft because they didn't know 'Windows secrets'?
We have some excellent third party software, many of which people would argue runs better than Microsoft products, and none needed the oh so mysterious 'windows secrets' to run. For instance if you look at computer games, you find that Microsoft actually makes them for Windows and XBox. Interestingly enough Microsoft does not produce the highest rated titles. In fact Microsoft Games developers are given the same resources as any other developer. There is no vast conspiracy, no hiddten technology or secrets that gives Microsoft an edge when developing software. Yet it would seem the EU is convinced.
This is no more than a carefully collaborated conspiracy by the EU to destroy Microsoft. When companies like Apple or IBM can do the exact something as Microsoft has and get away with it you know there’s something going on. Perhaps, like a certain other anti-competitive case filed Microsoft, we have Microsoft competitors in the backgrounds pulling the strings. Trying to take the company down through political means. Kind of difficult to do otherwise.
When it comes down to it all the EU has actually ruled that Microsoft is legally required to help its competitors even if it means Microsoft will lose a lot of its own technolog in the process. It would appear that already helping its competitors develop software for its operating system (which has without a doubt been the reason Windows has gained such popularity) isn't enough, now they have to let them see their source code and trade secrets (that are otherwise irrelevent to the 3rd party developer). What next? Will Microsoft be legally obliged to debug their competitor’s code?
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Comment by Anonymous
Then the other side of my mind says 250 days to deliver the source code? Why they don't have some sort of advance tool for managing source versions? If they were a solid operation and did have a system like IBM, Sun, Apple and others, they could have delivered this in a couple weeks, right?
I really don't know all the fine details but when crooked EU meets up with crooked MS there is going to be nothing but stomach wrenching slop to wait through.
Comment by Ahmed
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If MS starts doing this 'everyone can see how our software works' they give up a massive technological edge. It's like coke saying 'everyone, look at my recipe!'.