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Microsoft Hands Over Docs To EU
hankwang writes "Reuters reports that Microsoft has handed over technical documents to the EU in order to enable the competition to make interoperable software. So far, the EU has imposed fines of €497 M and €280 M onto Microsoft for abuse of its monopoly. The deadline for this documentation was today. According to Microsoft, the documentation is over 8500 pages."
What they should have done was increased Microsoft's software by a magnitude of 497 Euros (for pro) and 280 Euros... PER COPY THAT IS SOLD... that would devistate their sales, and more important the spread of their software and in general would sure add up to a lot more than some obscure 497Million Euros and 280Million Euros, that has no tie to volumes sold.
But hey I have a heart... I would even settle for the EU to charge them 25% of that fine, and give 10% of the proceedings to Open Source Linux... maybe.. maaaaaybe then Microsoft would change its ways. LOL
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