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Microsoft Subpoenas Thrown out of Court

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the take-your-business-elsewhere dept.

liliafan writes "Following Microsoft's attempt to subpoena documents through US courts, relating to their ongoing anti-trust case in the UK, the judge in California has thrown the case out of court citing: 'As a matter of comity, this court is unwilling to order discovery when doing so will interfere with the European Commission's orderly handling of its own enforcement proceedings.' as his reasoning."

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  1. Re:Ah, the backdoor approach. by pegwole · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Any time Microsoft loses, I laugh. When Vista hits shelves, whenever that may be, i'm going to get a few copies, shit in the box, and send them back to Microsoft. I may attatch a nice little note and put in there somewhere something about Ballmer's shitty pitch of Windows (the commercial back in the 80's where he looked like a used cars salseman) and then something about how dumb he is for trying to sue Linux, seeing as it's not owned by one particular person, it'll be hard to do. Although I am quite sure he can put together a nice legal team where he's going...(yes, I mean Hell, not Redmond...wait...I know where Hell is now!)

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  2. Does MSFT even sell 200M Euros a day? by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I know these are "stupid" questions, on many levels (especially in this venue), but does MSFT even make 200-million Euros a day in sales to the EU? No.

    That seems like a rediculous amount, no matter how evil MSFT may be. Isn't that more than 2x MSFT world-wide REVENUE, much less, EU PROFIT?

    What if they don't pay?

    What if they said "screw you, I'm going home" and stopped officially selling product in the EU?

    Of course, there would still be "grey-market" sales, and "3rd party" support, etc.

    As much as many do not like MSFT, this stinks of some sort of politicical extortion, plain and simple.

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  3. I heard that about Ballmer by peektwice · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I always heard he liked coming in the back door, now M$ tries to take the back door approach to their EU problem. Good thing the judge saw through M$'s BS.

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  4. Re:What documents? by stubear · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The judge didn't say they were irrelevant, she said they were confidential and the U.S. legal system was not going to be used as an end-run around the E.U. legal system. I find if frightenign that everyoen is willing to turn a blind eye to the E.U.'s corrupt legal system simpyl because it's Microsoft at the receiving end of the raw deal here. Would people be as casual if this were Apple?

  5. not to defend Microsoft or anything... by thewise1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    but if this was any other company that slashdot didn't hold so much hate for, it seems likely to me that the judge would have been denounced as an idiot in collusion with the EU. Sure, maybe they aren't the best company, I'm not arguing that at all, but the EU is raping them.

  6. EU just wants the money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I think they just want money... and money that goes to a US company... greed... they'll probably find nothing right with MS...