Microsoft top lawyer just announced that the US software giant would offer licences for some of its source codes in a bid to comply with antitrust requirements set by the European Commission.
"We will also license the Windows source code itself," Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith told a news conference. He added he did not know what percentage of the company's source codes would be licensed.
He also stated that this could lead to a new era of Microsoft complying even further in the future. I guess we'll all have to see this to believe it.
But, this is a major concession by Microsoft, and a change in tack. I guess they understood that the EU was serious and not likely to back off. Of course in the grand scheme of things it doesn't change that much.
Interesting to note that just as Google is starting to get into their own legal hot water with Governments, Microsoft is backing off. I'm sure the irony isn't lost on them.
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