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So anyway, is there anything else I'll have to provide? Microsoft says its auditor(s) will use all due care to guard confidentiality of the information. How do I know Microsoft won't use this as an excuse to glean confidential information about my business relationships? Within 14 days of a request from Microsoft, you will have to provide these to a Microsoft-selected auditor. You will have to keep copies of all EULAs, and other agreements such as non-disclosure agreements. So how will Microsoft know what we've done with the WSPP anyway? Microsoft says it could be anything from anti-piracy systems and antivirus technology to licence enforcement mechanisms, authentication security and intellectual property mechanisms (presumably digital rights management).

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The licence does have a provision for 'independent software' which basically says that software entirely developed without any reference to Microsoft confidential information by those who have not had access to Microsoft confidential information for at least a year prior to development, is not covered by the licence.Д¬ontent protection mechanism? What does that mean? OK, so what if I reverse engineer the protocols?

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Section 2.4 states: 'The licenses granted in Section 2.1(a) do not include any license right, power or other authority to subject Licensed Server Implementations or derivative works thereof in whole or in part to any of the terms of any other license that requires such Licensed Server Implementations or derivative works thereof to be disclosed or distributed in source code form.'ДЄnd this is the same Microsoft whose chairman Bill Gates recently lectured the industry that boosting interoperability 'will be the only way for companies to make customers' lives easier'? The licence specifically excludes open source. Well, in the 12 months to July 2004, it was making US$100 million a day.ДЄnd now it's looking to make more money for breaking the law? So surely Microsoft must be flush enough to give the open-source guys a break? Do they have to pay royalties too? If companies implement both Domain Controller and Global Catalog functionality they must pay royalties for both protocols. The minimum per-server royalty fee is US$100, while the maximum is US$600. Companies that use Global Catalog protocols must pay a per-user royalty fee of US$0.15 for every server sold. But the more important part of the punishment is the software giant has to open its protocols to competitors, to help them produce software that interoperates with Windows, both on the client and the server side.ДЇor the user and group administration protocols, Microsoft has split these into two categories: those that provide functionality equivalent to Microsoft's Domain Controller, which includes authentication, authorisation and the management of access to network resources such as applications and printers and those that provide functionality equivalent to Microsoft's Global Catalog, which provides directory services.Д¬ompanies that use Microsoft's Domain Controller protocols for their product must pay a per-user royalty fee of US$1.90 for every server sold. Well, a fine of 497 million euros (AU$833 million) for a start. OK, so Microsoft broke the law and was found guilty.

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Microsoft has been found guilty of breaking EU competition law by 'leveraging its near monopoly in the market for PC operating systems onto the markets for work group server operating systems and for media players'. ZDNet UK examined a copy of Microsoft's proposed licensing agreement to see the source of the EC's concerns.ДЇirst of all, why is this licence necessary? On Friday the EC rejected Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence, saying it had concerns that the licence excluded open-source vendors and charged unjustifiably high royalty fees.

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In last year's European Commission antitrust ruling against Microsoft, the software giant agreed to create a server interoperability licence that would allow rival makers of server software to write applications that can 'achieve full interoperability' with Windows client and server operating systems on 'reasonable and non-discriminatory terms'.

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