FTC to take Microsoft to task over 'unfair' contract clause

Grok Headline matches for FTC to take Microsoft to task over 'unfair' contract clause

Japan warns Microsoft about contract
clause

Japan warns Microsoft about contract
clause 07/13/2004 03:41 PM
CTV.ca Jul 13 2004 7:13PM GMT

Japan Asks Microsoft to Drop Contract
Clause

Japan Asks Microsoft to Drop Contract
Clause 07/14/2004 03:07 AM
Los Angeles Times Jul 14 2004 7:44AM GMT

Japan warns Microsoft for 'restrictive'
contract clause

Japan warns Microsoft for 'restrictive'
contract clause 07/13/2004 03:15 AM
ZDNet Australia Jul 13 2004 7:55AM GMT

Japanese authorities slap warning on
Microsoft for 'restrictive' contract
clause

Japanese authorities slap warning on
Microsoft for 'restrictive' contract
clause 07/13/2004 01:33 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Jul 13 2004 5:40AM GMT

Sun-Microsoft OpenOffice clause not a
threat

Sun-Microsoft OpenOffice clause not a
threat 09/22/2004 11:47 AM
SearchVB.com Sep 22 2004 3:24PM GMT

Sun, Microsoft Clause Singles Out
Openoffice

Sun, Microsoft Clause Singles Out
Openoffice 09/16/2004 07:16 PM
The settlement of the decade has a clause in it that protects Sun's desktop but not necessarily any of its OpenOffice brethren.

Microsoft clause "stifles innovation"

Microsoft clause "stifles innovation" 10/30/2003 12:34 PM
The European Commission has contacted unspecified hardware manufacturers about Microsoft's licensing policy because it suspects anticompetitive behaviour, it said today. Describing the move as a "preliminary fact-finding stage", the Commission said it is acting in response to concerns from companies about certain licensing conditions that Microsoft attaches to its Windows operating system.

Microsoft Judge Says Licensing Clause
Not Working

Microsoft Judge Says Licensing Clause
Not Working 01/23/2004 02:35 PM
The trial judge in the Microsoft antitrust case acknowledged Friday one important provision in the settlement she approved isn't working as well as expected, but she defended the agreement as otherwise effective. MS said it is changing the way some prices are calculated to a flat fee from a percentage of revenues.

Microsoft Censorship Clause Spreads to
More Products

Microsoft Censorship Clause Spreads to
More Products 12/15/2003 12:58 PM
Is it possible Microsoft has something to hide about the performance of its server and developer products? It’s hard to escape that conclusion when you see how many of its license agreements now contain language forbidding customers of those products from disclosing benchmark results.

Time was that SQL Server was the only product Microsoft restricted in this way, and there it could truthfully argue it was only following the lead of Oracle and other competitors it the database arena. But a look at its latest Purchase Use Rights agreement, which governs license rights for all volume license customers, shows the list of such products has grown considerably.

"COMMERCE CLAUSE NEWS: I haven't read
the opinion yet, but Larry Solum reports
that the Ninth Circuit has held that the
federal government can't ban homemade
machine guns under the Commerce Clause,
since they're not in interstate
commerce. He notes that..."

"COMMERCE CLAUSE NEWS: I haven't read
the opinion yet, but Larry Solum reports
that the Ninth Circuit has held that the
federal government can't ban homemade
machine guns under the Commerce Clause,
since they're not in interstate
commerce. He notes that..." 11/14/2003 04:05 PM

Japan warns Microsoft against
'restrictive' clause on electronics
contracts

Japan warns Microsoft against
'restrictive' clause on electronics
contracts 07/14/2004 01:30 AM
eTaiwanNews.com Jul 14 2004 6:23AM GMT

Microsoft Patents The Task List

Microsoft Patents The Task List 06/08/2004 08:07 PM

EU report takes Microsoft to task

EU report takes Microsoft to task 04/22/2004 12:03 PM
A 300-page report sheds new light on a corporate culture and business practices that led regulators to sanction the company last month for anticompetitive practices.

"takes Microsoft to task for how
Longhorn sets up user accounts"

"takes Microsoft to task for how
Longhorn sets up user accounts" 05/29/2004 08:52 PM

Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler '.job'
Stack Overflow

Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler '.job'
Stack Overflow 07/14/2004 10:08 AM
NGSSoftware Insight Security Research (Jul 14 2004)

Intellectual Property Task Force
Chairman David Israelite Announces Task
Force Membership, Creation Of Working

Intellectual Property Task Force
Chairman David Israelite Announces Task
Force Membership, Creation Of Working 04/22/2004 02:34 AM
U.S. Dept. of Justice Apr 22 2004 6:49AM GMT

[EXPL] (MS04-022) Microsoft Windows XP
Task Scheduler (.job) Universal Exploit

[EXPL] (MS04-022) Microsoft Windows XP
Task Scheduler (.job) Universal Exploit 07/31/2004 05:15 PM
houseofdabus HOD (Jul 30 2004)

Linux Represented on Microsoft Windows
Group Policy Task Force

Linux Represented on Microsoft Windows
Group Policy Task Force 06/19/2004 01:12 AM
Linux Electrons Jun 19 2004 5:07AM GMT

Mobile roaming rates are 'unfair'

Mobile roaming rates are 'unfair' 07/27/2004 05:51 AM
Two of Britain's biggest mobile phone operators are accused of unfair pricing and could face fines of tens of millions of pounds.

Kennedy criticises 'unfair' taxes

Kennedy criticises 'unfair' taxes 03/17/2005 02:54 AM
Gordon Brown's Budget fails to tackle the unfairness in Britain's tax system, say the Liberal Democrats.

Darfur war crimes vote 'unfair'

Darfur war crimes vote 'unfair' 04/01/2005 02:47 PM
Sudan criticises a UN Security Council vote to refer Darfur war crimes suspects to The Hague, as "narrow minded".

Co-op wins ICL retrial over 'unfair'
judge

Co-op wins ICL retrial over 'unfair'
judge 12/22/2003 06:47 AM
'Objective vision was distorted'

Rural council tax levels 'unfair'

Rural council tax levels 'unfair' 08/01/2004 11:17 PM
Rural dwellers are not getting a fair return on the council tax they are paying, a lobby group report says.

BugTraq: [EXPL] (MS04-022) Microsoft
Windows XP Task Scheduler (.job)
Universal Exploit

BugTraq: [EXPL] (MS04-022) Microsoft
Windows XP Task Scheduler (.job)
Universal Exploit 07/31/2004 07:07 PM
SecurityFocus Jul 31 2004 11:14PM GMT

EC threatens court action over 'unfair'
Intel-only tenders

EC threatens court action over 'unfair'
Intel-only tenders 04/22/2004 05:16 AM
Euro governments must open contracts to other chip makers

Microsoft loses Munich contract to Linux

Microsoft loses Munich contract to Linux 06/17/2004 05:12 AM
Seattle Times Jun 17 2004 9:13AM GMT

Microsoft Loses Major Contract to Linux

Microsoft Loses Major Contract to Linux 06/21/2004 10:50 AM
"The switch will be the biggest PC defection to Linux ever..."

Sun Microsystems beats Microsoft to
secure contract

Sun Microsystems beats Microsoft to
secure contract 12/06/2003 10:13 PM
Scotsman Online Dec 6 2003 9:37PM ET

UK government to extend 3-year contract
with Microsoft

UK government to extend 3-year contract
with Microsoft 08/19/2004 10:00 AM
LONDON -- In a deal that appears to buck the growing trend among governments to adopt open-source alternatives, the U.K.'s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) is negotiating a renewal of a three-year agreement with Microsoft Corp.

U.K. government to extend three-year
contract with Microsoft

U.K. government to extend three-year
contract with Microsoft 08/19/2004 04:58 PM
The U.K.'s Office of Government Commerce is negotiating a renewal of a three-year agreement with Microsoft Corp. that will focus on services and support.

Microsoft Loses Munich Contract for
14,000 PCs to Linux Program

Microsoft Loses Munich Contract for
14,000 PCs to Linux Program 06/17/2004 12:10 AM
osOpnion Jun 17 2004 3:40AM GMT

Collegiality clause

Collegiality clause 05/20/2004 02:20 PM
I’m thinking of doing something a little radical. Please tell me if I’m all wet or not.

I believe, strongly, in three things:

1. Collegial competition is better than enmity. For instance, I have a policy about not criticizing other feedreaders or their developers. Illustrating distinctions is cool, but in a professional way. Saying that X sucks or Y is stupid or Z is bad is not cool.

2. I like it when apps inter-operate; I like it when apps are compatible. I like this as a user, because it means choice, and I like it as a developer, because it means I can help make users happy, and it means I can promote #1 above.

3. The above principles are related.

One of the things I’m most proud of in NetNewsWire is that I documented the clipboard formats NetNewsWire uses, and that a bunch of other apps now support those formats too. This means you can drag (or copy-and-paste) headlines and feeds into those other applications. (It’s possible, though I haven’t tested it, that other feedreaders also generate the same formats, which is cool if true.)

Even though I know how it works, I still think of it as a form of magic.

So here’s what I’m thinking...

In NetNewsWire 2.0 there will be a few more things like that clipboard format, new things that I’ll document and encourage other developers to support.

This makes it so apps are more compatible, so they can work together, which makes users happy (and, frankly, delights me personally).

What I’m thinking is that I could put a collegiality clause in the documentation of these formats. It would say something like this: “By supporting this format, you agree that drawing distinctions between your application and competing applications should be done in a professional manner, and that expressing strongly negative, subjective value judgments is not professional.”

Obviously, this isn’t something that could be enforced, but it’s something, at least, a good step.

Millard Fillmore and Andrew Jackson

To show what I mean, let’s invent two feedreaders and their developers.

Millard Fillmore has taken a wild approach—his app is a lot like iCal. His idea is to emphasize the time-based element of feeds. It includes full archives, going all the way to back to when you first started using the app. Lots of people like it for its strengths as a knowledge-management tool, though it’s not as good when it comes to just skimming through the headlines as other feedreaders.

Andrew Jackson, on the other hand, took as his inspiration John Norstad’s venerable NewsWatcher application. (Which, if you weren’t a Mac user way back when, was a great Usenet newsreader.) Jackson’s feedreader is great for skimming headlines, but Fillmore’s app has more knowledge-management features.

Both developers, in promoting their applications, could talk about the different approaches in a professional way, recognizing that different people have different needs.

Or they could go negative.

Fillmore writes, “Syndication is the TiVo of the Web. Jackson’s brain-dead application takes no notice of that fact. I can’t believe anybody uses that piece of crap.”

Jackson writes, “The whole point of syndication is to make it easy to see what’s going on right now. Fillmore’s stupid app, with its clunky calendar-based UI, totally gets in the way. I can’t believe anybody uses that piece of crap.”

That’s the kind of stuff I don’t want to see. It’s not only bad for the developers, it’s bad for users, since Fillmore and Jackson are not going to work together on anything, which means users don’t get the benefits of compatibility and inter-operability.

Maybe I’m all wet...

I like the idea of promoting collegiality, but I’m not sure this the way to do it. It’s just something I’m thinking about.

I trust you’ll tell me if I’m nuts.

MoD insists on computer meltdown clause

MoD insists on computer meltdown clause 01/03/2005 09:45 PM
Telegraph Jan 4 2005 12:22AM GMT

Falsification of accounts — New I-T
clause can bring tax experts into net

Falsification of accounts — New I-T
clause can bring tax experts into net 07/10/2004 03:36 PM
The Hindu Business Line Jul 10 2004 8:08PM GMT

What does a nude suit, the naked cowboy
and Santa Clause have in common?

What does a nude suit, the naked cowboy
and Santa Clause have in common? 04/18/2005 11:07 AM
What does a nude suit, the naked cowboy and Santa Clause have in common? Remember the guy who freed (maybe killed) the fish? That's not all he's done.... Click around some and you'll see wet T-shirt contests with chicken broth, naked ice-swimming in the artic, prostitutes, the list goes on and on. I was mad about the fish, then I wasted my Sunday laughing. Wonder what his mom thinks... PS—Did I do this right?

e-Zest wins Contract for Pocket PC
/SmartPhone based mobile product
development using Microsoft .NET Compact
Framework

e-Zest wins Contract for Pocket PC
/SmartPhone based mobile product
development using Microsoft .NET Compact
Framework 07/14/2004 03:05 AM
e-Zest Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a provider of offshore software product life cycle management outsourcing services, has announced that it has bagged product outsourcing contract from UK based leading provider of mobile solutions (Covered under NDA). [PRWEB Jul 14, 2004]

Supremes: "Thank God we don't have to
address the merits of a case that
demonstrates just how intellectually
bankrupt our Establishment Clause
jurisprudence has become."

Supremes: "Thank God we don't have to
address the merits of a case that
demonstrates just how intellectually
bankrupt our Establishment Clause
jurisprudence has become." 06/15/2004 05:02 AM
weasel out of the debate .. justification

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40279-2004Jun14.ht ml
track this site | 5 links

DDL Package Testing Services Launches
Packreview - ISO 11607 Clause 6
Certification Unveiled at HealthPack
2005

DDL Package Testing Services Launches
Packreview - ISO 11607 Clause 6
Certification Unveiled at HealthPack
2005 03/23/2005 04:32 AM
DDL Testing Services launches PackReview, a certification, granted by DDL, to demonstrate package compliance with ISO 11607 clause 6 [PRWEB Mar 23, 2005]

And maybe we'll also find Santa Clause
there and he will give us lots and lots
of presents

And maybe we'll also find Santa Clause
there and he will give us lots and lots
of presents 01/24/2004 11:27 AM
Fact checking on Cheney's interview with NPR .. fact-checks assertions .. makes the most sense

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40116-2004Jan22.html
track this site | 6 links

Grok Description matches for FTC to take Microsoft to task over 'unfair' contract clause
GrokA matches for FTC to take Microsoft to task over 'unfair' contract clause

FTC to take Microsoft to task over 'unfair' contract clause

The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: