ChichiriMuyo on 28 February 2008
| 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. |
Evidence shows that Bill Gates stole most of windows from Xerox and Apple, lied to Steve Jobs and IBM, and cheated some random guy out of DOS to become the monopoly they are. And they are a monopoly, possibly the worst in a hundred years even. In no other industy is a corporation like MS allowed to exist in the US, and we have a histroy of not fining but dismantling monopolies. The EU has been much nicer to MS than the US was to Standard Oil and AT&T, and have a right to be disturbed by MS's activites since Windows costs 4 times as much as it should and is severely harming businesses around the world.
You do not have the right to never be offended.
