LXer: 'Fuzzy' royalties policies challenge Microsoft's open API pledge

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03-07-2008, 09:12 PM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,376 Rep:	LXer: 'Fuzzy' royalties policies challenge Microsoft's open API pledge Published at LXer: Royalties charged by Microsoft on Windows APIs and protocols are the next hurdle the company must clear in its wooing of open source developers. Leading open source figures have questioned charges Microsoft makes on its protocols and APIs, with a call to clarify whether Windows server, client and application APIs and protocols that Microsoft has pledged to "open" will come free of charge, and how payments - if levied - would be collected. Read More...

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