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Thursday 20 September 2007
When Monday's anti-trust verdict was announced, the FSFE and
Samba team talked to the gathered journalists and then sat down
for a group interview with Sean Daly.
That
interview is on Groklaw now, and I think it came out very well.
There's Carlo Piana and Georg Greve for FSFE and Jeremy Allison and
Volker Lendecke of Samba.
The story they tell is very different from what's dominated the
mainstream press. It's not contradictory, but a different focus.
For example, while the mainsteam press has produced a lot of headlines
about the 430 million Euro fine, they haven't mentioned the 3.6
billion (US dollars?) in payments that Microsoft has made to buy
Novell, CCIA, Sun, and RealNetworks out of the case. With the fine
being unimportant to Microsoft, the real issue is the client-server
protocols.
