EC's Microsoft ruling--a big mistake

ZDNet | at | by Mike

I take less offense at the notion that Microsoft should be required to license all protocols and technology required for proper interoperability. What really annoys me, however, is when design decisions for Windows get taken away from programmers in Redmond and handed to regulators in Brussels. I also resent the tendency to retroactively penalize action which, up till a negative antitrust ruling, a company has every reason to expect was perfectly legal.