SIGNATORIES TO the antitrust rulings against Microsoft, which includes the Department of Justice and other legal authorities from nine other states, are complaining that the firm's muddleware licensing scheme on Communications Protocols is proving a stumbling block to full compliance with the law.
The lengthy 46 page report, released late yesterday, said that Microsoft, in terms with the compliance agreement, was required to license some of its Communications Protocols on "reasonable and non discriminatory terms", the idea being that rival muddleware can work with the Vole's server OSes and compete "vigorously with Microsoft middleware".
But the report shows that the plaintiffs, that is to say the DoJ and the nine states, "have identified numerous concerns" with the Microsoft muddleware program both generally and specifically. Microsoft has made changes as a result of being beat up by the DoJ.
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