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Re: Opera executive praises EU move

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____/ Phil Da Lick! on Saturday 17 January 2009 21:23 : \____

> 
> 
> 7 wrote:
>> nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> 
>>> <Quote>
>>> Developers of software and services, [Opera Software's top developer]
>>> remarked, shouldn't have to "attach them to something which is
>>> proprietary."
>>>
>>> "On behalf of all Internet users, we commend the Commission for taking
>>> the next step towards restoring competition in a market that Microsoft
>>> has strangled for more than a decade, wrote...Opera's CEO. "...the
>>> Commission is serious about getting Microsoft to start competing on
>>> the merits in the browser market and letting consumers have a real
>>> choice of Internet browsers."
>> 
>> 
>> A serious point the EU is pursuing is that micoshaft agreed with US
>> authorities to not bundle exlpoder with OS in 2002.
> 
> 
> I notice you've made this point in a couple of threads. I haven't
> checked the nitty gritty but I hope you're wrong, because if you're
> right then the EU anti trust authorities are setting a dangerous
> precedent there that EU anti trust law could be interpreted as dictated
> by Washington. The EU case against MS should be on what has happened in
> the EU alone.

Or.. do what Bush would do... invade the eastern shore and impose EU laws on
the US.. ;-)

Or sign another 'trade' agreement.

- -- 
                ~~ Best of wishes

"I am convinced we have to use Windows – this is the one thing they don’t have.
We have to be competitive with features, but we need something more — Windows
integration."

                --Jim Allchin, Microsoft
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