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Microsoft Set To Be Fined $2.4M a Day
Nexum writes "The BBC is reporting on a European Union threat to fine Microsoft up to $2.4m a day for their non-compliance with the European Commission's demand that Windows be opened up. Back in March 2004 Microsoft was ordered to open up its Windows operating system by way of making documentation available that would assist work on interoperability with other systems, specifically: 'non-Microsoft work group servers [should be able to] achieve full interoperability with Windows PCs and servers'. According to the article, Brussels has found MS to have not complied with the ruling, and, sounding somewhat exasperated, EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has given MS a 5 week deadline before the $2.4m/a day fines begin."
Is today pro-Microsoft or anti-Microsoft?
I left my cheat-sheet at home...
"Microsoft Set To Be Fined $2.4M a Day"
That's what those bastards get for shutting down New York with that transit strike.... Oh, wait...
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and they could 'recalculate' the fine to be 2.4 dollars a day.
The Luddites were ahead of their time.
They will send the case to some collection agency, who will call Bill Gates at home and at work asking when payment will be made or at least a reason why it hasn't been made yet. Then Bill will have no other alternative than to write the check to keep the monkeys off his back.
Sure. I bet they have an intern right now looking underneath the cushions in the executive boardroom.
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Any person with a IQ above room temperature will get the hint.
I don't know about you, but I keep the room temperature between 18 and 22 degrees Celsius. People with IQs that low barely know how to breathe. Of course, that hovers around the 295 Kelvin mark, but do you know how hard it is to find someone with an IQ approaching 200, let alone 300? Now I don't know about any other useful temperature units...except for some arbitrary system with no simple correlation between different units (even ones for measuring the same things!) and goofy names like furlong, inch, stone, grain, and Fahrenheit.
Sure I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?
I think what he's stating, is that MS will just decide to STOP providing product and services to ANY EU country.
Oh please God, let it happen in the US too!
The price of freedom is eternal litigation.