FSFE & Samba interview re:Microsoft anti-trust
When Monday’s anti-trust verdict was announced, the FSFE and Samba team talked to the gathered journalists and then sat down for a group interview with Sean Daly.
That interview is on Groklaw now, and I think it came out very well. There’s Carlo Piana and Georg Greve for FSFE and Jeremy Allison and Volker Lendecke of Samba.
The story they tell is very different from what’s dominated the mainstream press. It’s not contradictory, but a different focus. For example, while the mainsteam press has produced a lot of headlines about the 430 million Euro fine, they haven’t mentioned the 3.6 billion (US dollars?) in payments that Microsoft has made to buy Novell, CCIA, Sun, and RealNetworks out of the case. With the fine being unimportant to Microsoft, the real issue is the client-server protocols.