Japan warns Microsoft for 'restrictive' contract clause

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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

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

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

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

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

FTC to take Microsoft to task over
'unfair' contract clause 07/09/2004 10:03 PM
Asahi.com Jul 10 2004 2:37AM GMT

Japan warns Microsoft over monopolising

Japan warns Microsoft over monopolising 07/10/2004 07:51 PM
Sydney Morning Herald Jul 10 2004 10:34PM GMT

Japan Warns Microsoft on Anti-Trust

Japan Warns Microsoft on Anti-Trust 07/13/2004 03:15 AM
Reuters Jul 13 2004 7:53AM GMT

Japan Warns Microsoft on Anti-Trust
(Reuters)

Japan Warns Microsoft on Anti-Trust
(Reuters) 07/13/2004 03:13 AM
Reuters - Software giant Microsoft Corp. received a warning from Japan's anti-trust regulators about unfair business practices on Tuesday, but the decision did not carry the heavy fines the U.S. firm was given in Europe.

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.

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

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

China warns against Japan rallies

China warns against Japan rallies 04/15/2005 04:44 AM
Chinese police warn people to avoid unauthorised anti-Japanese rallies, amid a row over history and oil fields.

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..."

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.

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

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

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.

Microsoft warns of new flaw

Microsoft warns of new flaw 02/11/2004 11:03 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Feb 12 2004 3:18AM GMT

Microsoft Warns: Don't Be a 'Phool'

Microsoft Warns: Don't Be a 'Phool' 03/31/2005 02:50 PM
Microsoft, with the help of the Federal Trade Commission and the National Consumers League, is using the backdrop of April Fools Day to warn computer users about the dangers of "phishing" scams. Microsoft also announced it has filed 117 lawsuits against alleged phishing site operators.

Microsoft Warns P2P Users

Microsoft Warns P2P Users 02/19/2004 02:15 PM
Slyck Feb 19 2004 6:30PM GMT

Microsoft warns of SSL attacks

Microsoft warns of SSL attacks 04/26/2004 07:36 AM
vnunet.com Apr 26 2004 11:48AM GMT

EU warns on Microsoft behaviour

EU warns on Microsoft behaviour 03/19/2005 03:23 AM
Microsoft seems to be falling short in its compliance with anti-trust sanctions, the European Commission says.

Japanese FTC Warns Microsoft

Japanese FTC Warns Microsoft 07/15/2004 08:16 PM

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.

Microsoft warns of critical flaws

Microsoft warns of critical flaws 07/15/2004 05:17 AM
Windows users are being urged to update their PCs after critical flaws were found in some Microsoft programs.

EU warns Microsoft the clock is ticking

EU warns Microsoft the clock is ticking 01/27/2004 09:52 PM
IHT Jan 28 2004 2:13AM GMT

Microsoft Warns on Spyware's Impact

Microsoft Warns on Spyware's Impact 09/03/2004 08:25 AM
San Jose Mercury News Sep 3 2004 12:57PM GMT

Microsoft warns of critical flaw

Microsoft warns of critical flaw 02/11/2004 01:21 AM
NDTV Feb 11 2004 5:10AM GMT

Microsoft Warns of 'Critical' VM
Vulnerability

Microsoft Warns of 'Critical' VM
Vulnerability 12/12/2002 01:56 PM
Redmond issues three new security alerts, one with a 'critical' rating for holes found in Microsoft Virtual Machine.

Microsoft warns of seven Windows flaws

Microsoft warns of seven Windows flaws 07/14/2004 06:42 AM
vnunet.com Jul 14 2004 10:52AM GMT

Microsoft Warns of Firewall Flaw

Microsoft Warns of Firewall Flaw 03/20/2003 02:10 PM

Microsoft warns of inferior product

Microsoft warns of inferior product 11/14/2003 10:21 AM
ONE News Nov 14 2003 9:01AM ET

Microsoft warns of firewall
vulnerability

Microsoft warns of firewall
vulnerability 03/20/2003 02:10 PM

Microsoft warns: Check your patches now

Microsoft warns: Check your patches now 06/28/2004 01:23 PM
Computer Weekly Jun 28 2004 5:33PM GMT

Microsoft warns EU rewrite would be
inferior

Microsoft warns EU rewrite would be
inferior 11/13/2003 01:40 PM

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