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Microsoft Sues EU

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the battlegrounds-masquerading-as-courts dept.

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."

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  1. For DnDers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. 2005 War Begins by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Funny

    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
  3. Talk About Duh ? by burdicda · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft suing the EU in a European Courtroom...
    Whos.....they must be smokin some of their software

  4. Re:Next up by tehshen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft vs Hell? They have no chance; all the lawyers are there!

    --
    Guy asked me for a quarter for a cup of coffee. So I bit him.
  5. How? by abrotman · · Score: 4, Funny

    How in the hell does Bill Gates walk around with such enormous balls?

    1. Re:How? by Alien+Being · · Score: 5, Funny

      Steve: There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who carry balls are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.

      Bill: Did you say 'balls'?

      Steve: Yes. Balls are my trade. I am a Ballmer. My name is 'Steven the Ballmer'. I arrange, support, and transport balls.

  6. Re:Next up by alefbet · · Score: 3, Funny
    Microsoft vs Hell? They have no chance; all the lawyers are there!
    But which one is "they" and which one is "there"?
    --

    A hack is just an idiom waiting for wider use.
  7. Re:Deeper pockets than Microsoft? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ever hear of the UN? It works just fine.

  8. Re:Deeper pockets than Microsoft? by flyingsquid · · Score: 3, Funny
    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.

    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."

  9. Re:Deeper pockets than Microsoft? by mpcooke3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quite.

    What a naive idea. Imagine British soldiers fighting alongside the French.

    We'd kill each other before we even saw the enemy.