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  1. Comment - EU: No Fee for Windows Source Code

    (Feb 1, 2006 - 5:45 PM)

    The whole situation has arised because of the first anti trust suit. EU decided that just because MS has violated the laws in the browser wars it should open its source code/protocols for its servers. MS has never used its monopoly ILLEGALLY to increase its shares in server market.

    This is like saying if Intel was proved to illegaly force partnerships then it has to open up its motherboard/circuit designs so that other vendors can make their own processors fit the. This absolutely makes no sense and does not benefit the competition and more importantly the economy

    And let's not forget the Windows N edition. Noone wanted to buy it, which is an indication that EU courts just have too much free time and too much political envy.

    The purpose of anti trust system is to benefit the customer and business environment. If MS releases their protocols customers will flock to the competition BECAUSE it's FREE. And of course MS can't allow that. As a result it will cough up fines, lawyer expenses etc. and this process will go on for years untill the decision is overturn and EU and MS reach another settlement.

    The whole purpose of EU doing this is to damage American corporations. The same reason was than it cancelled the merger of GE and Honeywell. And the same reason it funds AIRBUS.

    If you ask me, MS should sue all the open source groups for price dumping.
    It should also urge US government to sue EU in WTO and make taxes on EU imported knowledge goods/services.

    Microsoft's ecosystem has always been more profitable for everyone. So EU is in fact damaging it's own economy by doing this. No Open Source company(yes Red Hat too) has made a profit bigger than 100Mln. No Open Source company has decided to invest 1.7 mln in R&D in EU.

    MS should stop all the investment in EU market. And for every day there are fines it should start firing people for double that amount, citing increased costs.
    They should pull that 1.7 BLN investment out of EU immediately and put it to EU's greatest competitors US and China.

    Bottom line, EU is wrong and is seriously losing political credibility. I think US government should do something about this or there would be 600Mln dollars less in US economy next year.