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Comments on regulations are invited so that government authorities may determine what those regulations mean and how to implement them.

It appears from the article Microsoft is asserting that some interpretations which would be disfavorable to Microsoft have broader implications if applied uniformly across the spectrum of ICT goods and services.

The author wants to draw a distinction between software and hardware under the law without supplying evidence that such a distinction is made within it, e.g. his claim about GSM being acceptable is based on "nobody suggesting."

The author appears to have an ax to grind, democratic processes be damned.

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uhh, did we read the same article? he suggests that in all instances FRAND would be acceptable if there were not a truly open standard.

MS is still doing it's best to 'cut off the air supply' of a free and open IT ecosystem. Nothing new to see hear. MS fanbois will proclaim innocence until the last GPLed piece of code is eliminated.