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EC Suspends Microsoft Sanctions Due to Appeal

Posted by michael on from the too-nice-for-their-own-good dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The European Commission has suspended sanctions against Microsoft stemming from a ruling that the group had abused its dominant market position."

3 of 204 comments (clear)

  1. Re: Yes because it works that way for jail time by geek · · Score: 4, Informative

    "I agree. When you're thrown in jail for being convicted of a crime, they don't let you go just because you're put in for an appeal. They throw your ass in jail and you can wait there."

    Martha Stewart is out pending her appeal. So yes it happens, in fact it happens quite often especially in cases involving nonviolent crimes, white collar crimes etc.

  2. Re:Foreseen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The EP(arlament) voted against patenting software.

    The EP is choosen directly by voters.
    The EC is choosen by the states' govs.

  3. Sanctions suspended only for months -- not years by JPMH · · Score: 4, Informative
    The European Commission (ie the Executive branch) is not volunteering to suspend its antitrust sanctions for the full several years' duration of the Micosoft appeal process.

    What the Commission has offered is to suspend the sanctions only for a few months until the Court rules on whether they are acceptable as "interim measures".

    The European Court of Justice is expected to take several years to decide on the Microsoft appeal as a whole.

    But the ECJ ruling on appropriate "interim measures" is expected much sooner, literally within months.