ZDNet UK: EC Rebuffs Microsoft Over Open-Source Report

Feb 09, 2007, 19:00 (14 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Richard Thurston)

"The European Commission has resisted efforts by Microsoft to make it abandon its report into open-source software, it was revealed this week. But the Commission was swayed into allowing a 10-day period for feedback before completing the report.

"Harnessing the opportunity to provide feedback, Microsoft produced 25 pages of arguments as to why the report--which quantified the benefits of open source to European organisations--should be shelved..."

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