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| | Free Software Matters: Shaking Up The Microsoft Settlement |
 | | Under our antitrust laws, when the government settles such a case it is required to publish the settlement agreement, accept public comment, and then convince the relevant trial judge, in light of the comments, that the settlement reached protects the public interest. |
 | | On behalf of the Free Software Foundation, I filed a comment with the Department of Justice concentrating on the API disclosure provisions, which are the single most important aspect for the free software community. |
 | | Free software--through the combination of the GNU operating system, the Linux kernel, the X Windows system, the Windows emulator WINE and other free programs--can, if Microsoft fully and completely documents all the Windows APIs, be readily adapted to run all existing applications written for Windows, without modification. |
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