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Microsoft Hit With 280m Euro Fine
Craig Mason writes "The BBC Reports that "Microsoft has been fined 280.5m euros ($357m; £194m) by the European Commission for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling.
The software giant was hit by the fine following a long-running dispute between the US firm and EU regulators.
The move follows a landmark EU ruling in 2004, which ordered Microsoft to provide rivals with information about its Windows operating system.
EU regulators also warned Microsoft it could face new fines of 3m euros a day.""
Ballmer, hand me my personnal checkbook.
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Microsoft should ignore these imbeciles.
First, the State's anti-freedom IP laws prevent reverse-engineering of Microsoft code. This is why the market can't provide more competition. No company should have to share trade secrets that make them more competitive and keep prices down.
Second, the fines go to the State! This is warlordist racketeering and threat.
Third, competitors complaining were fairly vanquished because consumed are happy with the current market -- the demand for the competitions' products is low.
Duh.
....Blow It Out Their Ass! Microsoft is the one company everybody loves to hate, yet I doubt that competitive companies in Europe were denied anywhere near that amount of income. Why is it that companies in the US find themselves able to write programs that interact with Windows while European counterparts sit and whine about things. This is a ludicrous amount of money, and I want an exact accounting from the EU as to how these funds would be used. Sounds like they want Microsof to fund the EU....