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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> EeePC 900 vs HP 2133: Which Linux UMPC Will You Buy?
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>> | Of note with both machines is that Microsoft still currently plans to
>> | stop selling Windows XP to OEMs and Retail customers June 30, 2008.
>
> I think for the EU, the EU regulators must step in to defend against
> these new kinds of monopoly abuse whereby a monopoly randomly drops support
> for its previous product leaving the entire community of software
> developers and those who invested BILLIONs of dollars in product
> development see their investment vaporizing.
>
> The EU should force micoshaft to open source ALL API calls into the
> monopoly OS so that clean room open source versions of windummy OSen
> can be built to PROTECT EU's BILLIONS of dollars of investment.
> The EU must extract from micoshaft not to impose charges for use
> of abandoned API and clean room versions of software that implement the API.
>
>
> Otherwise, the EU will be hit with a massive productivity loss and
> repatriation and diversion of funds to pro-micoshaft companies that have
> been building flawed products that rely on choking off XP to make
> customers switch to these flawed products. Its a massive loss for EU
> businesses at home and abroad - some 1 TRILLION+ euro worth of business
> over the next decade that is about to be lost to companies outside the EU.
> The EU regulators are as always asleep drunk on tax payer money and unable
> to see new forms of high tech monopoly abuse being sneaked passed in front
> of their own eyes.
The Commission sits very hard on Microsoft at the moment. Ballmer seems scared
of someone, for a change (watch what he said earlier this week). Microsoft
tries to pretend to comply, but the EU isn't as stupid as Microsoft needs it
to be.
Microsoft won't behave. It's innately malicious. It will have itself fined out
of business while alienating its customers.
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