Microsoft Loses EU Anti-Trust Appeal

Kugrian writes "Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position."

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Re:This isn't justice: too little, too late

[mrchaotica]

No, what we need is a punishment with teeth. Even half a billion euros, for Microsoft, is apparently cheaper than stopping their anticompetitive bullshit. It's obviously not enough of a deterrent.

Now, imagine instead that the penalty was being barred from doing business in the EU and having all of their copyrights revoked so that Windows (and every other piece of MS software) became Public Domain. Would that be enough to make MS open its specs? I think that maybe, just maybe, it would!