ConsortiumInfo: Details Begin to Emerge on ECIS v. Microsoft EU Complaint

“There are a few more details beginning to emerge on the
complaint that ECIS filed in the EU alleging anticompetitive
behavior by Microsoft. As I reported on Saturday, one of the
allegations is apparently that Microsoft’s refusal to support the
OpenDocument Format (ODF) is part of this pattern of allegedly
improper behavior.

“Few details about the complaint have become public, however,
and it appears that this may continue to be the case, according to
an AP News Service story titled Microsoft Rivals File Broad EU
Antitrust Complaint, written by Aoife White. Regular Groklaw
contributor Marbux read this article more carefully than I did when
I was skimming the first news stories, and pointed out to me that
it states that ECIS has elected not to make the complaint public,
citing ‘business confidentiality…'”

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