"The world's largest Internet services provider's efforts to buy the cable and publishing giant Time Warner won European approval on Wednesday only after AOL offered to sever all structural links with German media group Bertelsmann AG (BTGGga.F). That concession eliminated the risk of dominance in the emerging market for online delivery of music over the Internet and software-based music players."
Being Dutch this leaves me slightly puzzled,
do I have to believe now that the EU,
this most bureaucratic, most inefficient,
most undemocratic, and sometimes even
corrupt supra-govermental institution did
something right for a change?
This seems to be a matter where the EU was
aware of the European situation (AOL having
ties with Bertelsmann), aware of possible
monopolies (AOL+TW+BM against the rest),
and they were able to get a result.
The EU categorically forbidding the AOL/TW
merger seems to be a bit rich.
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I also save the MBR and the output of fdisk -l seperately.
Beware that support for NTFS is still experimental.
He destroyed temple of Artemis in Efeze (one of the seven wonders of the ancient world) just to get his name in the history books.
Oddly enough, 23 centeries later a small fast food joint in Rotterdam was named after him.
And now a /. comment to boot!
"The world's largest Internet services provider's efforts to buy the cable and publishing giant Time Warner won European approval on Wednesday only after AOL offered to sever all structural links with German media group Bertelsmann AG (BTGGga.F). That concession eliminated the risk of dominance in the emerging market for online delivery of music over the Internet and software-based music players."
Being Dutch this leaves me slightly puzzled, do I have to believe now that the EU, this most bureaucratic, most inefficient, most undemocratic, and sometimes even corrupt supra-govermental institution did something right for a change?
This seems to be a matter where the EU was aware of the European situation (AOL having ties with Bertelsmann), aware of possible monopolies (AOL+TW+BM against the rest), and they were able to get a result.
The EU categorically forbidding the AOL/TW merger seems to be a bit rich.
BTW: http://www.annodomini.org.uk/aol-t ime -warner/