{"id":197149,"date":"2008-02-27T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/27\/ec-increases-microsoft-fine-to-1-35b\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T22:46:00","slug":"ec-increases-microsoft-fine-to-1-35b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/27\/ec-increases-microsoft-fine-to-1-35b\/","title":{"rendered":"EC Increases Microsoft Fine to $1.35B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that they got a bit upset about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/02\/27\/ec_fines_microsoft_largest_ever\/\">Microsoft ignoring their directive to open up their APIs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Microflaccid is lucky that I&#8217;m not on the board.  I&#8217;d strip copyright protections from all but the most recent versions of their software for this sort of crap.<\/p>\n<p>Imaging what would happen if Office 2003 and Windows XP were available legally for free in Urop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that they got a bit upset about Microsoft ignoring their directive to open up their APIs. Microflaccid is lucky that I&#8217;m not on the board. I&#8217;d strip copyright protections from all but the most recent versions of their software for this sort of crap. Imaging what would happen if Office 2003 and Windows &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[985,989,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulation","category-software","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}