Do no pass Go: Microsoft may face $5 million fine a day

[ASsman]

A REPORT in today's Wall Street Journal claimed European regulators of monopolies are to decide soon whether to fine Microsoft $5 million a day for failing to comply with antitrust sanctions.

The article claimed that the European Commission is taking advice from the Free Software Foundation of Europe which alleges Microsoft is putting obstacles in the way to its software code.

It said it has seen a letter from the ginger group to the commissioners claiming that Microsoft is creating its own terms on how it complies with the EC sanctions.

The antitrust regulators have the power to levy five per cent of Microsoft worldwide sales a day, said the Journal, in this article. (Subscription required). µ

* MEANWHILE Microsoft said in a statement that it has expanded its Shared Source Initiative to seven more countries in the European Union. The code will be provided to some companies, OEMs, system integrators, and academic institutions in Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia.

An MS representative said: "Transparency leads to greater trust and opportunity."



http://theinq.com/?article=21979

While the US Courts continue to twiddle their thumbs.

[Ali]

Looks like Oracle's on the same mission as Microsoft. Buy up all the competition (http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/business/oracle-sap-retek-41555.html) and then fuck the customer. We've (http://www.sap.com/index.epx) been doing that for years!

Um if anyone wants to make a lot of money, Oracle stock's going cheap (http://www.newratings.com/analyst_news/article_745103.html).

[yeahwho]

A REPORT in today's Wall Street Journal claimed European regulators of monopolies are to decide soon whether to fine Microsoft $5 million a day for failing to comply with antitrust sanctions.

The article claimed that the European Commission is taking advice from the Free Software Foundation of Europe which alleges Microsoft is putting obstacles in the way to its software code.

* MEANWHILE Microsoft said in a statement that it has expanded its Shared Source Initiative to seven more countries in the European Union. The code will be provided to some companies, OEMs, system integrators, and academic institutions in Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia.

An MS representative said: "Transparency leads to greater trust and opportunity."

While the US Courts continue to twiddle their thumbs.

As I sit and wait for my next big oppurtunity (http://www.nref.com/foto/fam2.gif) to beckon....I'll slip in between the cracks with the grape code.

[ASsman]

And as we speak, they are trying to fuck the EU over.

Here's the great park, brilliant if you will, evil nonetheless.

So the EU tells M$, don't be such a f'ing prick, take off Media Player from Windows and give up your monopoly on it. M$ was like, meh, sure , but it's gonna suck ass if we do it, because (I believe 1 of 3 things, the code was made either to fasilitate fucking up Windows by removing WMP, or do it completly, or M$ is lying) if we[M$] remove WMP you'll have a gimp for an OS.

EU says, that shit don't fly here, do it, and do it right. M$ goes along with it, a year later they released a half-assed attempt of an already half-assed OS to the EU public. Won't play this, fucked up in word, doesn't embed right, whole mess of problems. M$ says, told you so, except the people from RealPlayer have already shown the EU that it is possible, and their version of WMPless Windows doesn't have all these problems. So now they are debating whether or not to sue M$ 1 million a day.

I believe this is the article..
http://theinq.com/?article=22055

and here..
http://theinq.com/?article=22085

M$ sounds like one of those dickhead kids whose always fucking shit up. And everyone tells him to stop and hes like "What?", WHat I'd do?" and he goes home and laughs his ass off because he knew very well.

[Qdrop]

microsoft needs to be chopped up like Ma Bell......

it's time....