Microsoft Corp. has made substantial concessions to the European Commission, finally bringing the company into compliance with a 2004 antitrust ruling, the commission said Monday.
"Microsoft has finally agreed to three substantial changes to bring them into compliance with the decision," the EC said in a statement.
The first change the company has agreed to is that open-source software developers will be able to access and use the interoperability information, as required in the 2004 ruling.
Second, the royalties payable for this information will be reduced to a nominal one-time payment of $14,140, and third, the royalties for a worldwide license, including patents, will be sharply reduced, the commission said.
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