{"id":74179,"date":"2013-03-26T16:37:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T14:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=74179"},"modified":"2013-03-27T10:16:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T08:16:12","slug":"open-source-software-group-files-complaint-against-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/74179-open-source-software-group-files-complaint-against-microsoft.html","title":{"rendered":"Open source software group files complaint against Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Spanish association representing open source software users filed a complaint against <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> to the European Commission on Tuesday, in a new challenge to the technology giant following a hefty fine earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The 8,000 member-strong <a title=\"Hispalinux\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/516413-Hispalinux\">Hispalinux<\/a>, which represents users of the <a title=\"Linux\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360310-Linux\">Linux<\/a> operating system, said Microsoft had made it difficult for users of computers sold with its Windows 8 platform to switch to Linux and other operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer and Hispalinux head Jose Maria Lancho said he delivered the complaint to the Madrid office of the European Commission at 5.00 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission fined Microsoft, the global leader in operating systems, 561 million euros ($729 million) on March 6 for failing to offer users a choice of web browser. ($1 = 0.7694 euros)<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Sarah Morris and Teresa Larraz; Writing by Clare Kane; Editing by Julien Toyer and Tom Pfeiffer)<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More software<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/74072-ubuntu-to-power-china-as-operating-system-reference-design.html\">Ubuntu to power China as operating system reference design<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/73788-googles-chrome-and-android-systems-to-stay-separate.html\">Google\u2019s Chrome and Android systems to stay separate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/73772-google-keep-note-taking-app-revealed.html\">Google Keep note-taking app revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/73214-google-reader-to-shut-down.html\">Google Reader to shut down<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Spanish association representing open source software users filed a complaint against Microsoft to the European Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":74181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,7679,7979],"class_list":["post-74179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-open-source-software","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74183,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74179\/revisions\/74183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}