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it's not enough, they should charge more 
we cannot even afford an expensive fireball with all that money 
we cannot even afford an expensive fireball with all that money
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1. All kinds of Freeware and Linux would become bigOriginally posted by Asher
They could cut off all online services (Windows Live Messenger, live.com, Xbox Live, etc). Prevent all further activations and installations of Windows, Office, etc.
They can't do anything with the stuff already out there but if they stopped selling the products and halted all services, Europe would feel the sting.
Not to mention lack of further support in terms of patches for security vulnerabilities. That would be interesting also.
2. Happy Sony (PS3)
3. More piracy
Hmm I don't know if that is the effect they would want.
Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
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I said it would be stupid realistically.Originally posted by Heraclitus
1. All kinds of Freeware and Linux would become big
2. Happy Sony (PS3)
3. More piracy
Hmm I don't know if that is the effect they would want.
But I'm not sure if you're aware how much an MS usage ban would devastate businesses and PC gamers.
Over time there'd be alternatives (Apple / Open Source) but in the meantime there'd be lots of chaos.
Piracy would be illegal (international law and otherwise), and isn't a viable solution."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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That's why such regulation is important
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Can someone explain to me, in simple terms, what Microsoft did wrong?
Serious question. I know nothing about this dispute. I'm not really all that sure I care. But that's a lotta money...
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They defied the EU.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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They have paied the price for their lack of vision.Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
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The EU bureaucrats decided MS was charging too much to license Microsoft technologies to other people. They gave MS 120 days to give nebulous "reasonable" pricing. MS didn't give such "reasonable" pricing for several years. The fine is the result of a "daily fine of non-compliance" up to that date.Originally posted by Arrian
Can someone explain to me, in simple terms, what Microsoft did wrong?
Serious question. I know nothing about this dispute. I'm not really all that sure I care. But that's a lotta money...
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I'm curious where this $2.5B now the EU has stolen from MS is going."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Probably to build public housing for angry Muslim immigrants.Comment
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I doubt they could do much with it in any case. $2.5B... what is that, like 2000€?Originally posted by Asher
I'm curious where this $2.5B now the EU has stolen from MS is going.Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez DávilaComment
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They are probably using the money to finance the Airbus A350 XWB development.
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Naw, this is the EU we're talking about. Some MEP will just hire a few more family members to do nothing and get paid $20k a month to do it.
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Not quite. Even a cursory BBC article has more detail and accuracy than that bull****.Originally posted by Asher
The EU bureaucrats decided MS was charging too much to license Microsoft technologies to other people. They gave MS 120 days to give nebulous "reasonable" pricing. MS didn't give such "reasonable" pricing for several years. The fine is the result of a "daily fine of non-compliance" up to that date.
I'm curious where this $2.5B now the EU has stolen from MS is going.
And Asher the 2.5 billion is surely going to the judges who decided the antitrust case. Fortunately only you know this, let's hope the media doesn't figure it out
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FixedOriginally posted by Asher
They are probably using the money to finance the Airbus A350 XWB development.
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For once Wiggy the troll provides a useful link:
The court ordered MS to make parts of its OS code open so that rivals could make products which would work well with the rest of windows. MS has flatly refused to comply for four years thus the fines.An investigation concluded in 2004 that Microsoft was guilty of freezing out rivals in products such as media players, while unfairly linking its Explorer internet browser to its Windows operating system at the expense of rival servers.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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