DOJ Calls EU Microsoft Decision "Unfortunate"

Posted by michael on Thursday March 25, 2004 @03:58AM from the i-find-your-lack-of-faith-disturbing dept.

ogma writes "This one is especially ironic after the recent slashdot story on more of Microsoft's underhanded actions coming to light. It seems that the DOJ thinks Europe was too hard on Microsoft in its anti-trust ruling.. According to Assistant Attorney General Hewitt Pate, the fine 'may send the wrong message about antitrust enforcement priorities'..." Open Council writes "The Register points out that the EU has provided Microsoft with a major victory over its Open Source rivals because it will now be allowed to pursue royalty revenue from the APIs it publishes. Jeremy Allison says that the projects such as Samba, which he jointly leads, may face a prohibitive hurdle. The size of the fine is peanuts to MS but will be a bargain if it can lock out Open Source projects from using its API's."

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Re:wait a minute by happyfrogcow · 2004-03-25 04:25 · Score: 0, Troll

your' sis th ewrost post evre.
Re:The wrong message? by k_head · 2004-03-25 05:12 · Score: 0, Troll

OTOH Bush has collected more bribes er I mean donations then anybody else in history.

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Microsoft gave Ashcroft $5,000 for his failed by alfredo · 2004-03-25 05:57 · Score: 0, Troll

Senate bid against a dead man. they also allowed their lobbyist, Ralph Reed to work for the bush selection in 2000. Reed is now head of the Georgia GOP. He was also an Employee of Enron.

bush was a Mac user, but when MS started giving money and use of their employees, he switched to a Wintel machine.

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