LG gets injunction against PS3 sales in Europe!?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

AussieGecko said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

The two cases aren't even comparable, BTW, MS was offered a way out before stopping Windows sales, and having to offer a version without IE and making the users choose which browser they prefer, being given more than enough time to comply, is a totally reasonable solution, solving the antitrust issue in the consumers' interest, or at least it could have been a lot more, had the EU forced MS to price the version without IE less.

Sony has been hit a lot more harshly, at least in the short term, but on a completely different issue, a patent lawsuit.

So the only issue linking the two cases could be Sony being treated harsher than MS, but the organizations that dealt with them and inflicted the penalties aren't the same.

IE banned in Europe is a joke. There is no valid reason for it. Antitrust has nothing to do with it. The people that care that much know how to change it. There should not be an issue in this. But in Europe and only Europe there was.

That IE is banned in EU is a joke because it was never banned. Forcing MS to make a version of Windows without it besides all those including it, and to offer the user the choice of the default browser at installation time or when using the PC with Windows preinstalled for the first time isn't banning, it's only MS' FUD that likes to define it so. And the undeniable demonstration, if it was ever needed, is that IE is still around here, it just lost a lot of market share now that the same effort is needed to get it or its competitors.

Edit: this said, I agree that Sony suing everybody and his dog was just looking for what happened...