Microsoft accuses EC of conspiracy, secret negotiations in antitrust affair
Scott M. Fulton, III 2 Mar 2006 22:46
Redmond (WA) - Acknowledging that the European Commission did grant Microsoft access to documents pertaining to the EC's communications with the monitoring trustee it appointed to evaluate Microsoft's compliance with its 2004 antitrust ruling, Microsoft accused the EC, in a Supplemental Response this morning, of secretly collaborating with four companies, apparently to sway the opinion of the trustee.
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"In short, the Commission collaborated with Microsoft's adversaries to undermine the transparency of the monitoring process and to circumvent the principle of equality of arms," Microsoft's Supplemental Response today alleges. As evidence, Microsoft sites an e-mail from an EC case lawyer to a Microsoft attorney, stating that the four companies in question had all been granted licenses to see Microsoft's source code, and that their observations about that code had already been written down in a non-confidential statement to Microsoft. However, alleges Microsoft, no such statement has ever been disclosed to the company, even now, and that if it indeed exists, then Microsoft should have the right to review the statement prior to defending itself.
Read the whole thing on tom's hardware:
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/03/02/microsoft_accuses_ec_of_conspiracy/That strikes me as real funny.
