Re: EU is on the loose.
- From: "Paul Nichols [TeamB]" <paul@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:21:56 -0500
Henrick Hellström wrote:
I.P. Nichols wrote:How could even those quirky EU commissars consider the .NET framework some sort of unfair advantage.
I presume it is the other way around: The .NET Framework gets an unfair advantage (vs. JAVA and other frameworks) by being bundled with Windows.
FWIW and IMHO I think they are right, but five years too late.
That is probably the logic behind it.
I do not know if others (other than Java which MS used to ship with Windows, before MS violated the license agreements), have asked MS to ship their VM or not. Perhaps someone from Open Source petitioned some other VM be shipped with Windows and MS would not comply and therefore it was seen as an unfair advantage (could even have been a plugin like Flash or RealPlayer),
I would doubt this was brought up by Sun, since they settled the lawsuit. But I doubt the EU thought this up all by themselves.
Whether they will win or not, is questionable. However, if they did, NET is going to become a difficult sale with a 50 meg Runtime, except for Server based apps.
Personally, I think MS should have a right to ship what they want on their own OS. It is difficult for them to support others products on their own OS. I do think they were wrong on Java, since they did ship a VM by default.But that's water under the bridge.
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