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Re: Commission Had to Fine Microsoft

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Saturday 15 July 2006 09:02 \__


Fascinating.  But it's not over until the money is in the bank (ie EU
coffers).


I think the big(ger) issue is not the fines. The company must cease to exploit its monopoly power... whether it's interoperability, or as in the quote I selected, the bundling of software. There is no production cost to software, so Microsoft can continue to exploit away, until legislation changes.

Is this an American thing to act like a 5 year old[1] when being asked for something specific to then go and sulk in a corner, or make a big hoo-haa about something else instead of actually providing the specifics?


SCO was asked to provide specifics about what IBM had done wrong on numerous occasions and they failed to provide that which was required.

Now MS has been asked to provide specifics about their protocols and they've failed to provide that which was required.

The difference being that SCO is being told off in America, and MS is being told off in EU. It will be interesting to see which comes to a resolution first, and to what resolution it does actually come and if it actually sticks[2].

[1] a 5 year old would actually probably act more reasonably; perhaps a bolshy teenager is a better analogy?
[2] When the DOJ investigated MS's monopoly, a resolution was made and tehn watered down.



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