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Originally Posted by Rachel
As much as I dislike Microsoft as much as the next person, business is business. You gotta praise how smart and crafty they are!  |
One thing's being smart and crafty and quite another when you're enforcing your semi-defective product on consumers.
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Originally Posted by Rachel
And btw, that fine is laughable. That is pocket money to them.
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That's true, but it'll probably show the way to many other corporate law suits against the company. A few $10 billion dollar payments would make them much more eager to comply at least.
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Originally Posted by rosh
im sure they will stave off this paltry little fine [haha] with more and more delay tactics and even more appeals to however many more eu courts they can find to appeal to.
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This time they'll comply. They have much more to lose with stalling. EU institutions have limited amounts of legal means of complaints anyway. And as was said $350 million is a laughable amount for them. The Commission was pretty lenient anyway - they could have easily order them to pay half the worth of the entire company if they wanted to. Which would affectively drive them out of the EU market if they wanted to survive.