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EU Gives Microsoft 8 Days Until Fines
kaysan writes "European Commissioner Neelie Kroes has presented Microsoft with an ultimatum: Before Thursday next week, Microsoft must hand over all secret information on Windows protocols to its competition. Should the company choose to ignore this demand, it will be severely fined. Microsoft's history with EU fines so far amounts to approximately Euro777.5 million. Both linked websites are Dutch, but then again, so is EU commissioner Neelie Kroes."
Wow man, how to you manage to make it every time as first post? And this time again 1 minute?
Uh, I think we crashed and burned some time ago. What you're seeing now is the weak flailing of a charred editorial arm scrabbling its bloody blackened fingers on the control stick embedded in the sucking wound that used to be its chest.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
sorry. I made the mistake in assuming that "Neelie" was one of those US female names that usually male when outside of the US. Like "Laurie".
Where were you when the voynix came?
They have already changed "man" to mean "US citizen". It wouldn't be hard to change this section to mean "exported to another state".
It will be ironical if EU were to start teaching the US lessons on making a competitive market economy, given the hugely bureaucratic structure they have built for themselves which is marked by all known evils of the American marketplace and policy, only an order of magnitude worse since it pits state interests against each other.
a bald eagle.
I mean, at least get a mascot that won't be called "slaphead" will ya!
I know of too many British guys with the first name "Laurie" (not Lori). Here's a celebrity example.
Where were you when the voynix came?