MikeB on 27 February 2008
| rocketpig said: There are plenty of reasons to slap MS around but the European Commission is going overboard. 1.3 billion? C'mon, that's ridiculous. |
I don't think so, it's still more profitable for them to pay this fine instead of complying and open up for more competition... It should never have come to this, but Microsoft seems to enjoy government protection in the states with the antitrust case falling apart when Bush came to power. The situation is IMO not really the EU's fault.
Action against Microsoft should have been taken over a decade ago in the States. One problem is that software monopolies wasn't well understood by legal systems and governments (older people grew up in a world without computers).
