I heard this morning on the radio (I'm in Italy) that the fine has been estimated (spelling?) to be something in the whereabouts of 3 billion dollars (american billions), that is 2.8billions EUR.
And MS will be fined, since the fine is about PAST behaviour. Even if MS becomes the paladin of free trade and opensource (yeah, right...) in the next 24 hours that will not change anything.
...and a couple of books (there are nice ones you can download for free, like "How to think like a CS in Python").
And it is cross platform, so you don't have to worry what OS the kid uses.
The second step is probably to show him linux, and soon he'll discover dozens of FREE languages and tools by himself. If he is interested, that is. If he is not, why bother? ^_____-
IANAL, but what you are talking about sunds very much like "dumping": sell your product for _less_ than it costs to kill the competition. (example Nintendo sold NES this way, at least in western countries)
Now: isn't dumping actually illegal in most countries?
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I heard this morning on the radio (I'm in Italy) that the fine has been estimated (spelling?) to be something in the whereabouts of 3 billion dollars (american billions), that is 2.8billions EUR.
And MS will be fined, since the fine is about PAST behaviour. Even if MS becomes the paladin of free trade and opensource (yeah, right...) in the next 24 hours that will not change anything.
Bye and enjoy.
(Go Mario Monti! ^_____^)
...and a couple of books (there are nice ones you can download for free, like "How to think like a CS in Python").
And it is cross platform, so you don't have to worry what OS the kid uses.
The second step is probably to show him linux, and soon he'll discover dozens of FREE languages and tools by himself.
If he is interested, that is. If he is not, why bother? ^_____-
IANAL, but what you are talking about sunds very
much like "dumping": sell your product for _less_
than it costs to kill the competition.
(example Nintendo sold NES this way, at least in western countries)
Now: isn't dumping actually illegal in most countries?