Microsoft Won't Appeal EU Ruling

Ec|ipse writes "Microsoft has decided not to appeal the European court order to implement antitrust sanctions, Instead, Microsoft hopes to win their main appeal that they (Microsoft) had abused their software dominance."

Comments

Re:It's a shame

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you kidding?

MS is a gang of criminals?

What about EVERYONE who downloads a MP3 but never buys the album.

Are they a bunch of criminal and should they be ignored.

the anti-trust case was all political anyway, it means nothing, it didn't mean anythign when the doj decided it except that the doj wanted a cut of the proverbial MS pie and since BIll wasn't willign to cough up the dough in te normal fashion of bribes they decided to take it.

stop spewing forth the verbal garbage adn think before you post.

A True Monopoly is run by the Government

[SumDog]

I remember learning in an economics class that a true monopoly is one where the entire industry is controlled by the government and in effect socialized. Hence the old AT&T.

I've read several posts about countries "abusing" their monopolies and references to the recent problems with the US, EU and Airbus among others.

So is the US welding Microsoft against the EU, causing MS to become a weapon held by the US government; a tool of the government and therefore almost a true government sanctioned monopoly?

Re:Who get the $$$ from the fine?

[asuffield]

We're talking about the same EU which has not managed to balance its accounts in ten years. That doesn't mean they lost money in the sense of not making a profit - it means they lost money in the sense of "money has gone and they do not know where it went". That fine is going to be embezzeled, of course.