EU picks ex-hacker to monitor Microsoft - Technology - International Herald Tribune

EU picks ex-hacker to monitor Microsoft - Technology - International Herald Tribune: "Open-source advocates criticized the choice of Barrett, noting that Microsoft itself had proposed him as well as other candidates the commission had considered for the job.

'I find it funny that Microsoft was allowed to choose its own judge in this case, so to speak,' said Bernhard Reiter, the coordinator for Germany of the Free Software Foundation Europe, one of the groups that has sued Microsoft in European court."