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Old 07-13-06, 03:04 PM   #3
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It's a good thing to see the the Europeans can do what we obviously can't do over here - make Microsoft pay for it's non compliance:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5171126.stm

-S
I'm certainly no MS fan but it seems to me all the Europeans have really done is to create an impossible situation in order to extract a huge amount of money from them.

"We don't like you so we're going to do anything we can to hurt you" doesn't seem to be a very appropriate way for a "court of law" to operate. We'll see what happens in the appeal i guess.
No - what they are doing is forcing MS to allow for better Linux compatibility. Right now, all you have is a closed sourced monopoly that forces competing system to reverse engineer things such as Samba just to talk to a MS box. So, from the evidence of the facts, I disagree with your assesment.

-S
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