In a Joint Status Report released late yesterday, the US Justice Dept., writing also on behalf of states such as New York who remain plaintiffs in the ongoing antitrust matter with Microsoft, expressed its support for the company’s efforts to comply with a European Commission directive.
In the closest thing to an open letter to the EC that one could expect without explicitly addressing it to “Brussels, Belgium,” the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, led by Renata B. Hesse, writes for the US District Court, “As the Court may be aware from recent press reports, within the past two weeks Microsoft has expressed to both Plaintiffs and enforcement officials in the European Union a willingness to license its Windows server source code at no additional cost to licensees of each jurisdiction’s respective protocol licensing program. This proposal from Microsoft resulted, in part, from efforts to address Plaintiffs’ concerns – expressed in Plaintiffs’ January 23, 2006 filing – about Microsoft’s ability to translate the TC’s [technical committee's] work on the technical documentation into improved documentation for MCPP [Microsoft Communications Protocol Program] licensees in a timely fashion.”
Source: TGDaily
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