Horacio Gutierrez Quotes (11 Quotes)

We have made every change the commission has asked us to make to the technical documentation, and we are prepared to do more if they request it. Yesterday's announcement underscores Microsoft's commitment to meeting the commission's demands.

Transparency is vitally important in what can be a very opaque process in Brussels. We've decided to open this up so people can understand the issues.

These contacts call into question whether the reports are really independent, impartial assessments of Microsoft's technical documentation, or instead are argumentative tracts developed for the Commission with the assistance of Microsoft's competitors.

Because there was a question about whether we were holding something back, offering the source code is the answer.

We will file the answer tomorrow. We feel very good and very confident on the completeness of the documentation.

Last week the Commission said it was premature for Microsoft to allege they are riding roughshod over our rights of defense. Today we are less than a week away from the deadline for filing our response and have been denied access to the complete file, so I suppose it is now official and they are indeed riding roughshod over our defense rights.

We don't know how much of (the trustee's) report was the independent assessment of the experts and how much was a result of the Commission's influence.

The unsupervised and undocumented meetings between the trustee and Microsoft's adversaries encouraged by the commission violated the commission's own procedural safeguards as well as general principles of due process.

While the documents provided do not include the direct correspondence between the Commission and its technical experts, they show that the Commission, the trustee, and Microsofts adversaries were secretly collaborating throughout the fall of 2005 in a manner inconsistent with the Commissions role as neutral regulator and the Trustees role as independent monitor.

We are pleased to have collaborated with the Bulgarian authorities in their swift and effective action in this case. This is an important step forward in the combat against those who prey on Internet users.

This would be the same as taking away the right to a hearing, or the right to respond to a statement of objections.