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We will continue to support them to ensure that markets remain fair and proprietary competitors do not engage in illegal anti-competitive efforts to snuff out competitors who empower their users.” Heiki Lõhmus, the vice president of FSFE, said: “Proprietary “Software as a Service” offers seriously threaten the freedom of European computer users and their ability to maintain effective control over their devices and data…. The organization behind Microsoft Office competitor LibreOffice, Document Foundation, and the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) are among those who joined in Nextcloud’s complaint.

Together with the other members of the coalition, we are asking the antitrust authorities in Europe to enforce a level playing field, giving customers a free choice and giving the competition a fair chance.” This kind of behavior is bad for the consumer, for the market, and, of course, for local businesses in the EU. Copy an innovators’ product, bundle it with your own dominant product, and kill their business, then stop innovating. He said: “This is quite similar to what Microsoft did when it killed the competition in the browser market, stopping nearly all browser innovations for over a decade.

Nextcloud’s CEO Frank Karlitschek used Internet Explorer to explain why it’s dangerous for Microsoft to continue being allowed to favor its own products. However, abusing market power is illegal under EU laws. It is not illegal that Microsoft is favoring its own products. By bundling its services into its dominant OS, Microsoft is effectively killing its competition. The complaint claims that Microsoft might be violating antitrust laws by aggressively bundling its services, particularly OneDrive, and Teams, with Windows 11 and 10. German-based tech services provider Nextcloud and its coalition of European-based software providers called the “Coalition for a Level Playing Field,” has filed a complaint with the European Commission accusing Microsoft of anti-competitive behavior. If you're tired of censorship, cancel culture, and the erosion of civil liberties subscribe to Reclaim The Net.

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