Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Microsoft To Fight Korean Verdict

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-man-fighting-the-man dept.

DocHart wrote to mention a BBC article covering Microsoft's appeal against their recent Korean ruling. From the article: "The KFTC continued to investigate Microsoft's practices, despite the firm paying Daum $30m in November to end their dispute. The ruling of the KFTC echoes a similar 2004 judgement by the European Commission, which also found that Microsoft was abusing its market domination. Microsoft's rivals have since accused the firm of dragging its feet over unbundling its software in Europe, something Microsoft denies. "

3 of 139 comments (clear)

  1. would someone explain to me by j1mmy · · Score: 0, Troll

    what is so bad about bundling? every bsd and linux distro are chock full of bundled applications. why can't windows do the same?

    1. Re:would someone explain to me by MyLongNickName · · Score: 0, Troll

      Because it is an American company. Face it, the world does not like America right now. Part of this is deserved, partly it isn't. For years, Europe has wanted to return to its glory days and be the center of the world. If they cannot accomplish this, they at least want there to be no clear number one. Korea wants to be part of a new Asia.

      While neither region is able to take on the US militarily or culturally, then have been very successful about throwing up roardblocks to US business. I know folks in the import/export business... things aren't always very efficient about making it trough customs if it is a US firm.

      Microsoft makes a very easy target. Some of their business practices are questionable. I'd argue that for their size, and market dominance, they play relatively (please note term relative) nicely. But when you are the 800 lb gorilla, and offensive behavior is huge.

      Bottom line, this is 1 part anti-monopositic behavior, 2 parts anti-US ruling.

      --
      See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
  2. I call BS by brunes69 · · Score: 0, Troll
    Netscape died because the whole Navigator 4.x line was complete crap. It was slow and chunky, had a cluttered UI, had a horrible DHTML system (layers? ugh), and had next to no CSS support. Meanwhile IE 4.0 had excellent DHTML, was way faster even when run in Windows 95 which it was not bundled into, had great CSS support for it's day, and also had a clean UI with tons of extras.

    Then, insteed of getting out a new release ASAP, they wasted time deciding to re-write the entire browser from scratch. TWICE.

    MS may have killed Netscape, but only by pulling the trigger. Netscape had already shoved the gun barrel down it's own throat.