Microsoft has now replied to the demands of the European Commission that its server protocols should become available to competing companies for a reasonable and non-discriminating price. Microsoft simply wants to know what a reasonable price means to the EC. The company has been trying to satisfy the EC by adjusting prices and releasing previously closed protocols, but have failed. The patents are still not innovative enough to motivate the prices. Microsoft wants a constructive conversation with the EC to find out what is reasonable to both customers and Microsoft. Considering what the EC has asked for in the past we can imagine that Microsoft will more or less have to give the protocols to the competition.
