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Microsoft Subpoenas Thrown out of Court
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."
From TFA:"A Californian judge has thrown out Microsoft subpoenas asking that Oracle and Sun Microsystems hand over documents to support its case against the European Commission."
What documents are we talking about?
"What if they said "screw you, I'm going home" and stopped officially selling product in the EU?"
That would be a happy day for me. It would mean that nobody in europe could read MS office documents and all web sites in europe would have to work with firefox. Happy Happy day.
"Of course, there would still be "grey-market" sales, and "3rd party" support, etc."
Nah. Most likely thing that would happen is that the EU would stop recognizing MS intellectual property and void all NDAs. At that point windows would pretty much be open source and MS would get the shaft. Their only recourse would be to bribe enough politicians to wage war on europe. I am pretty sure Rumsfeld would salivate to wage war on "old europe" but I don't think that even the biggest war pig in washington would take on that cause.
"As much as many do not like MSFT, this stinks of some sort of politicical extortion, plain and simple."
Well it's aboutpunishing the guilty. Since they are not allowed to put corporations in jail fines are the next best thing.
evil is as evil does