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canuck Donating Member (209 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 09:28 AM
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EU to penalize Microsoft
Edited on Thu Aug-07-03 09:31 AM by canuck
Europe is very friendly to Linux anyway, this should help.

Microsoft Corp. continues to vio­late European antitrust laws, a tri­bunal there has found, and now faces stiff financial penalties and other sanctions.

"We intend to impose a fine for the past and we intend to impose a set of remedies for the future," Til­man Lueder, a representative for the European Commission, said yesterday in a telephone interview from Brussels.
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First, it says Microsoft is using its market dominance for operating systems and other applications that run on desktop computers to unfairly win new sales for operating system software that runs low-end server computers, the com­puters that typically help to run corporate networks.

Second, the EC says that by bundling or tying the Windows Media Player software with the company's operating system soft­ware, multimedia content devel­opers are forced to artificially skew development of new products so that they use Microsoft software.

edit: link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030807.umicro0807/BNStory/Business/
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ramapo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 09:32 AM
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1. Good
Maybe the EU has the guts to put Microsoft in its place. The arrogance of their monopolistic ways has been rewarded here in the US while the company used its' strongarm tactics to destroy all competition.
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PROGRESSIVE1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 09:36 AM
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2. See.......
the EU regulators are there to protect the people. Maybe America could learn something from them!
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 10:02 AM
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3. Any company with a CEO like Steve Ballmer
should get spanked just onaccount of that!!

:spank:
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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 10:39 AM
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4. what's wrong with Ballmer?
out of interest? i have my opinions about him.
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BayCityProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 11:59 AM
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5. Good
it's pathetic that some of Europes "right wing" parties are more to the left than our Democrats are. These stiff penalties would never be carrie dout in our government.
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