Thomas Vinje
Thomas Vinje
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Microsoft has not given up its exclusionary policies...Indeed any settlement in fact validates the Commission's case. Since the Commission is not bound by any private settlement, ECIS therefore urges the Commission to vigorously defend its 2004 Decision.
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Microsoft has been playing games with the Commission from the beginning, but now it realizes its time is up.
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We believe the commission is right to insist on the rapid and efficient implementation of its antitrust decision.
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It's merely, entirely and completely a public relations ploy to try to divert attention from the extremely strong case the commission has against Microsoft for failure to comply with the commission's decision.
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The credibility of the Commission is at stake, and the meaningfulness of the decision is at stake, so I don't think the Commission is going to allow delay.
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Any such settlement should not result in the closure of the EU (Microsoft) case. The Commission should, and we expect it will, proceed vigorously with its case against Microsoft,
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In other words, exactly what the commission predicted would occur as a result of Microsoft's illegal bundling behavior has occurred: Real has been marginalized, ... The lesson is that the commission is right to have found Microsoft to have engaged in illegal conduct, but that it erred in taking so long to decide the case and in imposing an ineffective remedy.
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For the last eight years, the commission has been extremely careful to follow every procedural rule to the letter. From a legal point of view, everything I know indicates the commission has been very correct.
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The commission has a very strong case, I think the strongest it's ever had.
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People don't pay $761 million dollars unless your opponent has a pretty solid case,
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We have evidence that Microsoft has refused to disclose formatting and other information. Word processing, spreadsheets and presentation programs can't achieve full interoperability with Microsoft Office.
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Microsoft are trying to turn this into an intellectual property case when it's not.
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Microsoft only started mentioning intellectual property rights once it was clear it would lose the case two years ago. It's an after-the-facts strategy and I hope the judge will see it for what it is.
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Microsoft is trying to turn this into an intellectual property case when it's not...This is a case about abuse of a dominant position, about refusing to provide information to vendors.