ZDNet UK is running a story on the antitrust concessions Microsoft has offered in the EU case. Samba Team member Volker Lendecke is quoted throughout the piece and offers some nice insight into the difficulties Free/Open Source Software developers have with Microsoft's recent royalty-free licence proposal.

Volker sees the information Microsoft is making available as "completely pointless." The article continues:

For example, the royalty-free licence provides basic information on how a Microsoft server opens a file. But information on how to manage file privileges is not included under the royalty-free licence, which means that developers cannot write code that can open a file held on a Windows file server, unless they sign up to the royalty-bearing licence that contains information on file privilege protocols, said Lendecke.

For more on this, please see the complete article, Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'.