May not be enough -- they're withholding judgement. Although the tone of the article makes me say "Friggin' socialists, give'em an inch and they take a mile."
It is true that code isn't the end-all of documentation. Anyone who's waded through thousands of lines of another's undocumented code knows what I mean. Still, surely the previous documentation plus the code should be enough for any reasonable person -- but who says the EU is reasonable?
do you really dislike Microsoft this much that the Eurosocialists are now the good guys -
Read my earlier post from before I found out the code production wasn't forced. Anyone should be free to license their code how they want, open or closed, as long as that license doesn't violate law.
Oh, come on. Let's roll through Sourceforge and start counting up projects where the source code is the only documentation that exists at all. They've got the protocol sources they requested, the API docs they requested, and MS is offering tech support for the folks who have to go through it. How about we just mandate that Microsoft not only provide all this information, but actually write a competing implementation for everyone else to use. Is that zero-effort enough for you?