{"id":1804,"date":"2012-05-26T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2285042"},"modified":"2012-05-26T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T19:00:00","slug":"decision-in-microsofts-ec-appeal-scheduled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/decision-in-microsofts-ec-appeal-scheduled\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision in Microsoft\u2019s EC Appeal Scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Google, Motorola Mobility and Samsung have gone and put the spotlight back on unreasonable licensing demands, it\u2019s at least timely that Europe\u2019s second-highest court, the General Court, is going to decide on June 27 whether a Microsoft appeal has any merit.<br \/>\nBack in 2008, the European Commission fined Microsoft $1.14 billion (\u20ac899 million) ostensibly for not complying with a 2004 antitrust decision, the first time it ever did such a thing.<br \/>\nWhat it was really all about was Microsoft asking too much for patent licenses and interface documentation to connect Linux servers to Windows although the EC offered Microsoft no pricing guidelines even when asked. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2285042\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Google, Motorola Mobility and Samsung have gone and put the spotlight back on unreasonable licensing demands, it\u2019s at least timely that Europe\u2019s second-highest court, the General Court, is going to decide on June 27 whether a Microsoft appeal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}