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South Korea Fines Microsoft $32 Million

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-it-is-the-fashionable-thing-to-do dept.

laffer1 writes "South Korea has fined Microsoft $32 million and ordered two new versions of Windows be made. The first version will be stripped of Windows Media Player and MSN IM software and the second must include links to competitors."

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  1. Re:The eternal what if...... by bombshelter13 · · Score: 5, Informative

    You know, it just sounds like you did a good job of describing Linux. I mean, take away all that stuff you described, and what's left? A kernel, prettymuch... and the 'OEMs' you describe, are, in this case, the distributions. Taking an operating system core with nothing else attached and packaging in all these extra tools you mention is ~exactly~ what the people Red Hat, Debian, Slackware, Ubuntu, and so on do as a matter of course. It's their primary job.

  2. Re:Whats the real issue? by tpgp · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know about you but I'd rather have Windows Media Player than RealPlayer or Quicktime installed by default.

    Well, I don't know about you - but I would much rather have mplayer, Zoomplayer or Classic Media Player installed by default then Windows Media Player

    The point here is currently only one entity can decide.

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