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Thu, 25 March 2004 14:09

smwScott
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Funny. If Microsoft's home was in Europe I would almost be certian this would have never gone to trial. I don't think any large US firm will get a fair trial in Europe because there is such an anti-American attitude there. The EU is going to try and sock it to America any way they can.

MS may not be a US gov but it does effect the economy of the US and it will open the door for other countries to hold their own trials against MS. That is where it will hurt MS. Next thing you know Japan, China, Korea, India, Mexico, Canada, Russia and many other countries will use the EU case as a building stone to take down the "Software Giant" and hurt the US economy even more.

Tempting to just pull right out of the World economy. Too bad we created it, and can't extricate ourselves without ruining the economies of these ungrateful pricks.

Tempting to just pull out of the world economy? You're joking right? Right now we rely heavily on the world economy and would be pretty much fucked if we "pulled out." Of course it would hurt them too, but to think that we're just doing a favor to other countries by participating in the world economy is ignorant.

Anyway, I doubt the fact that they're European has anything to do with it. The US government has also won several cases against MS and overall has fined them much more than the EU did. Both of them came to similar results - MS is an overbearing monopoly that shuts out the competition, so how do you figure that one legal system worked and not the other? Computers would be much better, cheaper, reliable, and more advanced if there was more competition in the market place.

-smwScott

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		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: Xtrm2Matt on Thu, 25 March 2004 00:48
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: NHJ BV on Thu, 25 March 2004 02:16
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: spreegem on Thu, 25 March 2004 05:54
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: Deactivated on Thu, 25 March 2004 06:43
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: Xtrm2Matt on Thu, 25 March 2004 08:58
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: Xtrm2Matt on Thu, 25 March 2004 08:59
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: DanSolo on Thu, 25 March 2004 09:07
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: Xtrm2Matt on Thu, 25 March 2004 09:18
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: K9Trooper on Thu, 25 March 2004 09:22
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: KIRBY098 on Thu, 25 March 2004 09:42
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: NHJ BV on Thu, 25 March 2004 10:20
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: K9Trooper on Thu, 25 March 2004 10:50
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: NHJ BV on Thu, 25 March 2004 11:55
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: Vitaminous on Thu, 25 March 2004 13:51
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: Cpo64 on Thu, 25 March 2004 14:07
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: smwScott on Thu, 25 March 2004 14:09
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: K9Trooper on Thu, 25 March 2004 14:30
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: Vitaminous on Thu, 25 March 2004 15:34
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: xptek_disabled on Thu, 25 March 2004 15:45
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: Cpo64 on Thu, 25 March 2004 15:49
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: Aircraftkiller on Thu, 25 March 2004 17:11
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: smwScott on Thu, 25 March 2004 19:32
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: Aircraftkiller on Thu, 25 March 2004 19:38
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: SuperFlyingEngi on Thu, 25 March 2004 19:50
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: Aircraftkiller on Thu, 25 March 2004 20:13
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: DarkDemin on Thu, 25 March 2004 20:42
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: Demolition man on Fri, 26 March 2004 03:29
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: KIRBY098 on Fri, 26 March 2004 04:27
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: Demolition man on Fri, 26 March 2004 05:11
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: Demolition man on Fri, 26 March 2004 05:37
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: smwScott on Fri, 26 March 2004 14:17
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: IRON FART on Fri, 26 March 2004 15:22
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: rm5248 on Fri, 26 March 2004 17:13
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: SuperFlyingEngi on Fri, 26 March 2004 21:36
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: xptek_disabled on Fri, 26 March 2004 21:48
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: NHJ BV on Sun, 28 March 2004 05:40
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: abakshi on Sun, 28 March 2004 10:56
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: IRON FART on Sun, 28 March 2004 15:03
		OT: Microsoft have a nice big fine! By: Carl on Mon, 29 March 2004 10:04

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