Europe Fines Microsoft $1.3 Billion

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Dodece said:
European governments have a twisted sense of economic justice. These are the same governments that fund commercial enterprises to compete with privately owned commercial enterprises. Microsoft flaunted the last fine, and they will flaunt this fine, and why should they cede an economic advantage they earned. Windows isn't a god given gift to the world its the property of a corporation. Europe has a problem with that I suppose they can fund their own software company to develop a operating system.

You might gather I take issue with Europe's trading practices. Much of the rest of the world has similar issues. Excessive tariffs, standardization, unfair competition always favoring the local company over the one based in another country. So I put very little credence in what European's consider to be fair or unfair. When a free trade economy says the competition is unfair then I take greater interest.

I didn't get what you actually meant by funding commercial companies to compete other commercial companies? Actually the EU laws forbids governments to favor companies of one country over the other. That is inside EU of course. Twisted sense of economical justice would be killing the competition, not support it. The problem is the Windows (practical) monopoly, which they use to kill the competition.