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Executive Testifies Microsoft Must Be Able to Alter Windows | |
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| Time: 09:39 EST/14:39 GMT | News Source: New York Times | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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A Microsoft executive told a federal judge today that the company should be allowed to make changes in its Windows operating system that impair the performance of other programs so long as the company believes it is acting in the best interest of Windows users. Christopher Jones, a Microsoft vice president in charge of Windows, testified against penalties that a coalition of states want the court to impose on Microsoft to redress the company's antitrust violations. Among the states' proposals is a requirement that Microsoft refrain from interfering with the way rival software works on its operating system without "good cause." | ||
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| #1 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 4/26/2002 5:17:00 PM |
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#4 - Oh it's even more subtle than that.
Let's say there is some API call that has a bug. The bug is perhaps a security problem, it really shouldn't be operating in that fashion and can be exploited to harm the user. So Microsoft issues a fix for this problem. But I sell a product that happens to make use of this bug, and the patch from Microsoft breaks my application. Microsoft is now clearly in violation of the renegade state's remedies. Worse yet, according to the renegade state's remedies, Microsoft would have had to notify the public 60 days in advance of releasing a patch for the security hole... giving full details of the bug and how it can be exploited. This further puts users at risk, as now we have known security problems, but Microsoft is not allowed to release patches due to government intervention. |
| #2 By 3339 (65.198.47.10) at 4/26/2002 8:05:35 PM |
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#4 and soda, you are both ignoring the "good cause" clause... or at least soda is... So in fact, soda, your example is less subtle and is permitted by the settlement despite Gates' claim that he has no idea what "good cause" means.
As for the OpenGL example, #4, you point out why it's a bad example--you are constructing so that now there is only one little piss ant application using OpenGL and making it bad software in your claim--if that was truly the case, they could also probably drop it as a good cause since there would be such small usage. Of course, this ignores the fact that the 3D market and CAD and architecture and numerous other industries are much more beholden to OpenGL then they are to DirectX which is primarily a game API--in comparison to OpenGL... |
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