Microsoft is appealing against that decision, and on September 30th it will argue for a suspension of the commission's remedies, such as the requirement that it license its code to rivals.

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This is both an efficient use of existing code base and increasingly a requirement as developing nations struggle with limited resources to tackle similar challenges.

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Its lawyers successfully argued that it had followed the requirement to "have regard to" the code - but had decided to ignore it in interviewing prospective pupils.

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