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Microsoft Responds to EU With Another Question

Posted by Zonk on from the dismantling-from-the-ground-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has responded to the latest round of EU requests by asking how much the EU thinks they should charge for Windows Server Protocols. The EU has stated the Microsoft should charge based on 'innovation, not patentability' and that they have 'examined 160 Microsoft claims to patented technologies' concluding 'only four may only deserve to claim a limited degree of innovation.' The EU is also starting to discuss structural remedies as opposed to the behavioral remedies they are currently enforcing. At what point has/will the EU overstepped its bounds?"

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  1. Too late... by MarkAD88 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The EU has already overstepped their bounds. No government should be allowed to tell a company what it is they can charge for a product nor whether their individual products are "innovative" or just "patentable".

    Forget the fact that the entire process is a blatant example of socialism, it's just purely one-sided and I believe that no matter what Microsoft does at this point the EU will just continue to abuse this implied authority that they've been granted until they can drive Microsoft off their shores or make all of the products free in EU.

    1. Re:Too late... by giorgiofr · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Yeah, in fact my right to exist is granted by the government and I should be grateful that they let me breathe.
      Stalin would be so proud of you.

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    2. Re:Too late... by giorgiofr · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      BWAHAHAHAHAHAH
      1. I'm a European. You have wasted half of your post.
      2. I know what MS has done better than you. IT DOES NOT MATTER IN THE SLIGHTEST. NO government should interfere with MS, or any other company or individual, for that matter. You have wasted the remaining half of your post.
      The fact that you assumed I'm from the USA speaks volume about your usage of projection. You don't care what MS has done or is doing or how it hurts competition, you only care that it's an American company and as such is some kind of enemy. So, I hate to break the news to you, but YOU are the idiot here.
      Now please resume with your high and mighty EU-is-the-bastion-of-freedom-against-American-fasc ism drivel. Call me back when we have some freedom of speech. Prick.

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      Global warming is a cube.
  2. Wrong by PadRacerExtreme · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A government should never tell a private organization what it can charge for a product. Might as well just have the government own the business (since it is setting prices) which leads to communism!

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  3. Re:Publish or Perish by Xanius · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    MS Should just nullify all EU licenses and see how long they bitch and moan about this stuff. Pull everything from the shelves and say piss off.

  4. Overstep? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    When the EU sends troops into Redmond it will have overstepped its bounds.