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Re: [News] EC set to fine Microsoft £1.4 million/day, draft ruling due Monday

  • Subject: Re: [News] EC set to fine Microsoft £1.4 million/day, draft ruling due Monday
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:55:11 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • References: <pan.2006.06.29.14.26.18.79174@goawayspammer.com> <4i5dn3-4ad.ln1@ellandroad.demon.co.uk> <slrnea7rj6.442.jason@jason.websterscafe.com> <ih8dn3-csq.ln1@ellandroad.demon.co.uk> <54869528.APNRf12dxF@schestowitz.com>
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Thursday 29 June 2006 16:34 \__
> 
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>> Handover Phist <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Mark Kent :
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>>>> arachnid <none@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> The inquirer's a gossip rag, usually right but occasionally wrong so
>>>>> take this with a grain of salt:
>>>>> 
>>>>>     http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32686
>>>>> 
>>>>>     By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 28 June 2006, 07:37
>>>>> 
>>>>>     THE EUROPEAN Commission has said that it has had a guts full of
>>>>>     Microsoft's procrastination over the implementation of its 2004
>>>>>     antitrust decision and is set to fine the outfit £1.4 million a
>>>>>     day.
>>>>> 
>>>>>     ...
>>>>> 
>>>>>     A draft ruling will be presented to national competition
>>>>>     authorities on Monday, while an official ruling is expected on
>>>>>     12 July.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've seen hints of this elsewhere.  I don't imagine MS will pay, though,
>>>> and I suspect that they'll go to the US government to try to put
>>>> pressure on the EU that way.
>>>>
>>>> The fine money could go a long way to covering this month's EU
>>>> commisioner's expenses bill, though... :-)
>>> 
>>> I did my own analysis here:
>>>
> http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/archives/20060627_the_europe_question.phtml
>>> 
>> 
>> Can't seem to get that here at the moment.
> 
> Works fine over here. Good read, so thanks for the link.
> 

Yeah - got there this time.  The arithmetical analysis is interesting -
it's something like I expected to see - not a huge problem for MS even
if they do end up paying it.

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| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!"
-- Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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