Steve Posted February 27, 2008 Report Share Posted February 27, 2008 The European Union is fining Microsoft Corp. $1.3 billion for charging rivals too much for software information. EU regulators say the company charged "unreasonable prices" to software developers who wanted to make products compatible with the Windows operating system. The fine is the largest ever for a single company and the first time the EU has penalized a business for failing to obey an antitrust order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 28, 2008 Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 Good thing Bill Gates's credit card can handle that amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted February 28, 2008 Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 Small change for them.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogueyam Posted February 28, 2008 Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 This is nothing but those who can't create leaching off of those who can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiceMan Posted February 28, 2008 Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 Microsoft has never done much "creating". In the 1980's Microsoft, did not "create" MS-DOS, they licenced it. And Windows 95/98/etc would not be internet compatible if they hadn't "borrowed" the TCP/IP stack from the Berkeley BSD Open Source movement (which they closed). Microsoft are a gang of convicted monopolists who used illegal business practices to drive all their competitors out of business. They should have been split up by the Supreme Court back in 2000, to lower prices for customers. (In the same way that AT&T Ma Bell was broken up in the '70s.) Unfortunately Bush's nominees sided with the worlds biggest corporation and not the 13 States (whose software costs had become so high that they sued Microsoft.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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