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Microsoft Sues EU
mormop writes "News.com is reporting that Microsoft is hauling the European Commission into court." The case is in response to "imposed sanctions against the software giant, including a record fine of about $621 million (497 million euro) in March 2004, in a case that also covered the bundling of Microsoft's Media Player with Windows, but the company has not entirely carried them out."
You now have a concrete example of "lawful evil", for anyone who asks.
Someone using bureaucracy to bring the entire process down to a slow enough crawl that by the time it's resolved, it's no longer relevant, thus allowing the company to get away with whatever they want.
While twirling their long waxed moustaches.
Microsoft vs Earth ... Oh, the hell with it.
Microsoft vs The Martians
Microsoft vs Santa Claus
Microsoft vs Mike Nelson, Crow, Tom Servo
Microsoft vs
- Just my $0.02, take with a grain of salt, your mileage may vary.
Counsel: We get signal.
European Commission: What!
Counsel: Main screen turn on.
European Commission: It's you!!
Gates: How are you gentlemen!!
Gates: All your base are belong to us!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Microsoft suing the EU in a European Courtroom...
Whos.....they must be smokin some of their software
Fuck that. I dont want my taxes going to some lawyer to play legal games with MS. We are putting a European army together now, this is probably as good time to test that it works. Lets try fighting instead of legal wrangling.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
How in the hell does Bill Gates walk around with such enormous balls?
The Slashdot summary seems to be deceptive.
I, for one, am appalled at this strange lapse in what is usually pristine summarizing and editing. Unacceptable!
Is there a "+1 sarcastic as Hell" mod? :-)
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
Ever hear of the UN? It works just fine.
Does America count as a threat?
After all you're OUR buffer to them here in the UK...
I can see the dispatches now:
"Reports are coming in that Microsoft's rapid assault has caught the Polish Army off guard and put them into full retreat. Vladimir Putin expressed little concern over a suspicious buildup of Microsoft tanks along the Russian border, citing assurances from Bill Gates that Microsoft would honor the recently signed Microsoft-Russia nonagression pact. Throughout Microsoft-held territory, police went door-to-door rounding up Mac users for internment in camps. The French reported that their retreat-and-surrender operation was proceeding brilliantly, despite a massive shortage of white flags."
Quite.
What a naive idea. Imagine British soldiers fighting alongside the French.
We'd kill each other before we even saw the enemy.
Well maybe they'll do better when they post the dupe.
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