Wow. (a) Wow. The EU has a functioning government. I wonder what that's like. Can't Microsoft buy some congres-- er, legislators like they would here?
(b) Wow. We all knew that Microsoft had packed the orgs that ratified OOXML. But who knew it would be illegal? (Is it illegal, or is that under contention?) (c) Wow. A whole continent without IE preinstalled (if that's the actual remedy) would be shocking. I'd expect Firefox to take at least 80% of the market in the EU, given that it's a well known and gratis product (never mind that it's libre). (d) Wow. Anything the EU does to force Microsoft into actual interoperability instead of interoperability lip service benefits the whole world, since we all use the same protocols. First it was China, where copyright laws are never enforced. Now it's the EU, where antitrust laws are enforced with extra zeal. What's a poor multiply-convicted criminal monopolist to do? On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:31 AM, marbux <[email protected]> wrote: > Last night, after everyone was gone for the weekend, Microsoft > announced that the European Commission had hit the company with a > statement of objections regarding its practice of bundling Internet > Explorer with Windows. -- Bob Miller K<bob> [email protected] _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
