-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 07:28:31PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 07:37:10AM -0800, Number Six wrote: >> > Even though I still have a bunch of stock, and I'm a linux lover now, so >> > I cheer if it goes up and I cheer if it goes down, I was expecting >> > Europe to really nail Microsoft to the wall. I dunno, I expected some >> > surrogate America-bashing, or just a really f-you to an American >> > company. Even though it's a record for the EU, it's a pittance to >> > Microsoft and will be barely noticed. >> > >> > What happened? Do they just have not much power? Why so light? >> >> My understanding is that the main point of the ruling was not so much >> the dollar amount of the fine, but the ruling that MS must unbundle >> Media Player AND open up all the undocumented 'features' and 'standards' >> in Windows so that competitors' apps get a level playing field. > > Yes. Though it was on the BBC six o'clock news tonight, and they > didn't mention that bit at all... just the fine and the Media Player > bit. But wait, there's more! http://ursine.ca/article.pl?sid=04/03/24/2147252&mode=thread > The headline was "War on Windows"! Nice! - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian. Because it *must* work. debian.org aboutdebian.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAYj2cUzgNqloQMwcRAnJ5AJ9StNX3P0W0MuP5sWPClobXiU4G1ACgwMTK 6EEOlBFbl8HtwW5DV2m01sY= =oXBy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
