The European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), the front organization for IBM, Oracle, Sun, Red Hat, RealNetworks, Opera as well as other companies on the Redmond enemies list, has become a party to the European Commission’s latest antitrust complaint against Microsoft. ECIS, which has a lot of practice harrying Microsoft, especially with the EC, joins the Mozilla Foundation, Google and the Free Software Foundation Europe in sticking its two cents in the EC’s tying case against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, which it bundles with the Windows operating system.

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