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Tim S · 27th Feb 2008, 14:11

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/02...titrust_case/1

The European Commission has fined Microsoft a record £681.6 million in the long-running antitrust dispute.

Jordan Wise · 27th Feb 2008, 14:30

where on earth did you get that picture?!

AlexB · 27th Feb 2008, 14:38

That picture is very very offputting.

mmorgue · 27th Feb 2008, 14:44

At first I felt kind of bad that the fine was that high.... then I saw that picture and remember his "Developers Dance" routine and "feeling kind of bad" turned to "I just wanna slap him!"

I mean, c'mon -- who doesn't?

Tim S · 27th Feb 2008, 15:07

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Originally Posted by Jordan Wise

where on earth did you get that picture?!

It's a face that only a mother could love.

Andune · 27th Feb 2008, 15:09

For some reason i dont like what the EC is doing to Microsoft...
But hey, what do i know.

p3n · 27th Feb 2008, 15:09

*insert apple propaganda*

steveo_mcg · 27th Feb 2008, 15:57

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Originally Posted by Andune

For some reason i dont like what the EC is doing to Microsoft...
But hey, what do i know.

It does kinda feel dirty, however they have had it coming, they were asked to comply they agreed then dragged there heels for as long as possible. I suspect this is don't **** with me type of fine. However projects like samba have already benefited from this so i suppose i can live with it.

ChaosDefinesOrder · 27th Feb 2008, 16:07

hmm I wonder if this will help things w.r.t NTFS read/write reliability in Linux?

Tim S · 27th Feb 2008, 16:12

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Originally Posted by Major

They make that amount of money in about 20 minutes so they don't care....

/Joke

That was the point I was trying to put across at the end - it's not as if that hurts a company that has an annual turnover of over $50 billion (and income around the $20 billion mark).

hawky84 · 27th Feb 2008, 16:21

tis a meer sniff at the profits Microsoft has made from charging developers extortionet licensing fees

Arkanrais · 27th Feb 2008, 17:28

my eyes have been violated...again. I saw that picture and my crotch rapidly retracted and I felt like vomiting.

koola · 27th Feb 2008, 17:57

It sucks to be a monopoly...

pendragon · 27th Feb 2008, 18:01

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Originally Posted by AlexB

That picture is very very offputting.

what he said ^^^

impar · 27th Feb 2008, 19:50

Greetings!

European Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes sure has the balls in the ight place! Even if she is a lady...

And the fine could be of 1,5B€ instead of the 899M€, lets hope Microsoft learns the lesson.

pumpman · 27th Feb 2008, 20:15

easy target, id sooner they looked at Banking and utility suppliers for instance

sui_winbolo · 27th Feb 2008, 20:43

Ugh, Bit-Tech. For the love of God, please stop using that eye stabbing inducing picture.

My dreams will once again be haunted with that face.

freedom810 · 27th Feb 2008, 21:31

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Originally Posted by Tim S

That was the point I was trying to put across at the end - it's not as if that hurts a company that has an annual turnover of over $50 billion (and income around the $20 billion mark).

Jesus, i was going to say the fine was harsh, bugger that it should have been higher!

Andune · 27th Feb 2008, 21:49

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Originally Posted by impar

Greetings!

European Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes sure has the balls in the ight place! Even if she is a lady...

And the fine could be of 1,5B€ instead of the 899M€, lets hope Microsoft learns the lesson.

I wonder what she does with all that money..

Maybe she wanna turn the moon into a "Death Star"
http://www.volkskrant.nl/multimedia/...eel_71157b.jpg

Nictron · 28th Feb 2008, 06:44

If you decided that Microsoft Shares are part of your retirement fund in the early 80's, as a shareholder you will have a very comfortable retirement.

Remember they are a public company so allot goes to the shareholders.

I wish that our government could react like this to some of our monopolies here in South Africa, TELKOM our only network operator until recently made 1.7 Billion Dollars in profit last year and we only have a population of 46Million, now that is a shocker!

Monopolies always abuse their situation, it is only right that they where fined, hope they learn from it.

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Nictron Multimodder Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 99	If you decided that Microsoft Shares are part of your retirement fund in the early 80's, as a shareholder you will have a very comfortable retirement. Remember they are a public company so allot goes to the shareholders. I wish that our government could react like this to some of our monopolies here in South Africa, TELKOM our only network operator until recently made 1.7 Billion Dollars in profit last year and we only have a population of 46Million, now that is a shocker! Monopolies always abuse their situation, it is only right that they where fined, hope they learn from it.