Everyone is reporting on this, but since Samba and our very own Jeremy Allison get mentioned in this article by ZDNet UK, we'll mention it, too. The European Commission is not satisfied with Microsoft's attempts to comply with the EC's order to open up Window's server protocols. MS proposed a licensing scheme which would provide access to protocol information for a fee.

The server interoperability licence proposed by Microsoft treats open source vendors unfairly and has unreasonably high royalties, according to the EC.

For the full story, see EU rejects Microsoft's licence offer. And here's the original article with Jeremy that is referenced.