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How ISPs May Quietly Kill VoIP Communications Posted by Zonk on Friday March 18, @10:59PM from the poor-kids-never-had-a-chance dept. ravenII writes "PBS's i'Cringley's informative piece gives an eye-opening look at the anticompetitive behavior of some ISPs who are showing up late to the VoIP game. This is not something that could be easily mandated, and the beauty of this approach is that they're not explicitly doing anything to the 3rd party service applications. They're just identifying and tagging their own service...

The proposed settlement in the Microsoft antitrust trial will probably be accepted by the judge unless a lot of people complain soon, even though it lacks any useful enforcement provisions and fails to prohibit many of Microsoft's anticompetitive practices. I've drafted an open letter to the Department of Justice to explain why the proposed settlement should not be accepted; it's at http://www.kegel.com/remedy/letter.html I'd be honored if you would read it, and consider signing it with me, or submitting your own commen...

...ve a Windows member server joined to the Samba4 domain, do I need user CAL to access that windows server throught SMB protocol? The MS licencing seems to say yes (http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/client-access-license.aspx). But I cannot imagine how this could not be considered as anticompetitive practice, at least here in Europe... Indeed, it would remove the main financial advantage of Samba4 over MSAD. I have a client with an old Windows 2003 AD with all the associated CALs that would need get an upgrade, and they would prefer to go on the samba4 path. However if they have to pay all...

...percent, to 340. Heineken shares fell as much as 39 cents, or 0.8 percent, to 46.7 euros. Cartel Penalties ``Although the alleged infringement appears to have been terminated, the commission treats this kind of behavior very seriously because market sharing is amongst the most blatant forms of anticompetitive practice,'' the commission said. Companies involved in cartels in Europe face fines as high as 10 percent of annual sales. The leveling of formal charges does not make fines a certainty, the commission said. The companies have a right to see the evidence and dispute the charges in a he...