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Looks like Microsoft was finally backed into a corner and forced to give in to EU authorities on its long running antitrust case.  The New York Times has the details:

In a groundbreaking decision with far-reaching implications for the $50 billion global server market, Microsoft agreed to comply with terms of the commission’s 2004 order and sell its server software protocols — the digital keys that rivals need to make their software work with Microsoft’s own — for minimal compensation.

There are wonderful things about the open-source software movement (I’m a huge fan of Firefox and a number of other lesser-known open source programs). But this isn’t a victory for them, despite the way it will surely be portrayed.  No, this is a victory for free-riding failures, a victory for government intervention in the marketplace, a victory for whiners demanding protectionism, a victory for anti-market forces who think the best way to run the economy is by telling others what to do.

Here’s FreedomWorks chair Dick Armey’s recent op-ed on the decision.

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