MS Faces Fines

[Meshuggener]

Microsoft Faces EU Fines, Media Software Curbs

 

quote:BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp, the world's largest software maker, faces a European Commission fine for charges it abused its dominant market position and may be ordered to reveal key secrets to competitors and change the way it distributes its music and video software.

The Commission, the European Union (news - web sites)'s executive body, said on Wednesday that it felt it had a strong case in its four-year antitrust probe against Microsoft and the amount of the fine would be linked to the severity and duration of the company's perceived offence.

"At this stage, we have so much evidence and we are in possession of such substantive a file that we believe any decision we take will withstand scrutiny of the European court," Commission spokesman Tilman Lueder told a briefing.

[avello500]

i say $400 trillion dol3lars, and the complete works of microsoft to be turned over the the opensource community right before they disolve the company.
that sound about right?

[M51DPS]

They must be fined 500 trillion dollars, the source code of windows must be turned over to the open source community to be laughed at, bill must publicly come forward and apologize for making such crappy products, and an international holiday, No More Microsoft Day, will be celebrated. Plus problems will now be refered to as microsofts, so that people will say, "There's a bit of a microsoft", "What's the microsoft?", and "Fix that microsoft".

[Stilly]

how about Billy splits all his money and gives everyone who doesn't use windows a part and then gets flogged and or caned publicly

[slvadcjelli42]

Yeah, that all sounds very good, but really, I'm just here to say YAY HOMESTAR RUNNER! Hahaha M51DPS good choice!

[TuxLinux]

About time for another one! Hehe if these lawsuites continue. Eventually  maybe Microsoft  will run out of money. They were down today on the stock market  about 4 points. Not sure if trading yet stopped. Actually probably did for the day.

[jbolin1946]

I hope the EU bankrupts those morons at Microsoft!They deserve it for giving us shitty, buggy software. Those guys wouldn't know multi-tasking if it bit them in the ass!

[avello500]

come to think of it. it would be nice to have billy tour the world so we could all spit on him.
im surprised no-one has pied him again.

[jasonlane]

quote:Originally posted by avello500:
i say $400 trillion dol3lars, and the complete works of microsoft to be turned over the the opensource community right before they disolve the company.
that sound about right?

$400 Gizillion sounds about right. However, handing M$ code over to the open source community????????

Why would you want to give the OS Community a virus?

No I say take it into the desert and bury it, or sink it in the Marianas Trench or something, it should never see the light of day again.

[ August 07, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]

[M51DPS]

quote:$400 Gizillion sounds about right. However, handing M$ code over to the open source community????????

That's why I said, "so it could be laughed at". Oh yeah, Bill has to show up on in person to every city in the world and make a speech about every single evil thing he ever did regarding his OS. Then he must fight his own way out of the crowd, in every city.

[Faust]

Personally I don't want Free Software to be even remotely associated with that crap product in any way...