Mozilla To Join EU Suit Against Microsoft

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @07:32AM from the judges-make-the-best-software-decisions-of-all dept.

CWmike writes "The European Commission (EC) has granted Mozilla the right to join its antitrust case against Microsoft, a spokesman said Monday. If the charges stick, Microsoft could be forced to change the way it distributes IE, as well as pay a fine for monopoly abuse. Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's chairperson, said in a blog over the weekend that there isn't 'the single smallest iota of doubt' that Microsoft's tying of IE to Windows 'harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice.'"

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Hate to say it.. by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-10 07:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

but this whole fiasco has made me NOT want to use Opera. Total removal of IE can't happen. Well, it can, but most people are going to re-install IE as most apps these days require the API's IE uses. I like the effort Opera, but this should have been done in 1999, not 2009.