“In a letter to the Department of Justice addressing Microsoft’s
Proposed Final Judgment in their anti-trust case, a well-known
consumer advocate wrote:“‘The agreement should require that this information
(interoperability) be as freely available as possible, with a high
burden on Microsoft to justify secrecy. Indeed, there is ample
evidence that Microsoft is focused on strategies to cripple the
free software movement, which it publicly considers an important
competitive threat. This is particularly true for software
developed under the GNU Public License (GPL), which is used in
GNU/Linux, the most important rival to Microsoft in the server
market…'”
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