Yeah, I wanted to clarify, M$ makes alot of profit out of their developpers, they still dont wanna waste benefit on a stupid fee that they could have not to pay!
Sorry mage a mistake, The profit M$ makes IS far more above what they pay their developpers for, thats what I wanted to clarify, they still dont want to waste alot of benefit on something they probably could fix!
Well "the daily fines would be backdated to 15 December 2005" quoted from the same article. As much as it is a pinch to Microsoft, no company would be interested into paying such fees every year, even though they make a really large benefit, they still have some employees to pay (scattered all around the world), and they still have to pay for a lot of things to begin with. Knowing that employees are beeing rushed and used by M$, and that the profit they make out of them do not actually cover their salary makes me hope they will pay the fee... But simply, they would rather do what they want than loose such a market and pay such a fee.
And if we are lucky enough, we will have Xp source code in front of us soon enough;).
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Yeah, I wanted to clarify, M$ makes alot of profit out of their developpers, they still dont wanna waste benefit on a stupid fee that they could have not to pay!
Sorry mage a mistake, The profit M$ makes IS far more above what they pay their developpers for, thats what I wanted to clarify, they still dont want to waste alot of benefit on something they probably could fix!
Well "the daily fines would be backdated to 15 December 2005" quoted from the same article.
;).
As much as it is a pinch to Microsoft, no company would be interested into paying such fees every year, even though they make a really large benefit, they still have some employees to pay (scattered all around the world), and they still have to pay for a lot of things to begin with. Knowing that employees are beeing rushed and used by M$, and that the profit they make out of them do not actually cover their salary makes me hope they will pay the fee... But simply, they would rather do what they want than loose such a market and pay such a fee.
And if we are lucky enough, we will have Xp source code in front of us soon enough