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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 09:03 AM EDT |
| Having been involved in some EC efforts to get EU goverments to increase their
use os F/OSS I find this difficult to accept at face value. There may be some
effect from antagonism between EU Departments but I think it unlikely to the
extent you are implying. It seems more likely that Apple have managed to 'get
at' the relevant commissioner. There may also be some antagonism between the
EU and the UK goverment (bearing in mind the extent to which HMG and Google got
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 10:10 AM EDT |
Perhaps the EU Anti-Competition Commission are merely "reacting" at this
time.
What I mean by that is: complaints about Motorola/Google's
activities to the EU are being made. But Motorola/Google haven't complained in
return.
I wonder what would happen if EU Consumers politely pointed out
to the EU Anti-Competition that all Motorola/Google were doing was defending
themselves - that Microsoft and Apple were behind the initiation of the current
Legal warfare.
In other words: I wonder what would happen if:
EU
Consumers complained about MS/Apple's Legal behavior to the EU
Commission
Would it go ignored because those complainants were not
businesses? Much like MS' failure to abide by the browser choice went ignored
when the complaints were only consumers and nothing occurred until a business
complained?
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- Perhaps.... - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 12:45 PM EDT
- In short.... - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 01:15 PM EDT
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| Authored by: RichardB on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 04:57 AM EDT |
Actually, the EU position seems entirely sensible to me. We don't want companies
using patents over essential technology like GPRS in an abusive manner, by
taking out injunctions.
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