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Re: Neelie Kroes' Expenses - scoop!

  • Subject: Re: Neelie Kroes' Expenses - scoop!
  • From: Hadron Quark <qadronhuark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:05:15 +0200
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> __/ [ High Plains Thumper ] on Tuesday 19 September 2006 12:03 \__
>
>> B Gruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> news:4n9tvoF9csgcU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>> 
>>> Unconfirmed sources tell us that Ms Kroes is having her
>>> expenses investigated, and that it is possible that she
>>> might have charged for a taxi to the airport when her pool
>>> car was unavailable! (Remember where you saw this first!)
>>> 
>>> http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e14962ce-4734-11db-83df-0000779e2340
>>> .html
>> 
>> User-friendly version: http://tinyurl.com/rjzsr
>> 
>> Ms Kroes answered admirably to FUD-like arguments:
>> 
>>> But Ms Kroes says in her letter: âI have seen it suggested
>>> that the Commission may seek to prevent Microsoft from
>>> improving the security of its operating system. This is
>>> categorically not the case. We do nevertheless seek to
>>> ensure that rival security software vendors . . . are able
>>> to compete on a level playing field.â
>>> 
>>> She adds: âSimilarly, I have noted attempts to link the
>>> ongoing Vista discussions to the purported creation of jobs
>>> in Europe that a Microsoft-sponsored study claims will
>>> result from Vista, It would be wrong to imagine such a
>>> link. If jobs are to be created as a result of Vistaâs
>>> release, any such job creation would only be enhanced with
>>> the release of a version of Vista which allowed others to
>>> compete on the merits of their products.â
>>> 
>>> Ms Kroes also disputes complaints that the Commission
>>> failed to issue sufficient guidance showing how Microsoft
>>> could avoid new antitrust trouble on Vista.
>> 
>> I think the 2004 ruling was very clear.
>
> I'm surprised that she mention no links between Vista and online services
> from Microsoft. Other people have already voiced complained about
> this. I

Roy seems to know more about Windows than he does Linux. No surprise there.

-- 
I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a
fundamental error.  Be thankful you are not my student.  You would not get a
high grade for such a design :-)
		-- Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds

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