Change Proposed in Judge Handling EU Microsoft Case

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The top judge of the European Union's second-highest court has proposed changing judges in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case, according to a letter sent to all parties in the case. The move, shared with Reuters on Sunday by some of those who have seen the one-paragraph letter sent Friday, comes after internal court criticism directed at the judge heading the Microsoft case because of a controversial article he wrote.

The letter lays out plans by Court of First Instance President Bo Vesterdorf to transfer the case away from the current judge and panel to a larger panel which Vesterdorf will head. The European Commission found in March 2004 that Microsoft used its dominance to compete unfairly, fined the world's No. 1 software company 497 million euros ($608.8 million) and ordered it to change its business practices.

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(2 replies) #1 bucko on 20 Jun 2005 - 20:04

typical.

, glad they are changing but does

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transfer the case away from the current judge and panel to a larger panel which Vesterdorf will head

mean more money?

, even I'm from England this is getting out of hand now!

#1.1 olly86 on 20 Jun 2005 - 20:09

It's only cos the EU's budget's in such a mess, they need all the money that they can get. Greedy French git's.

Also each EU cow receives more in subsidies than half the world's population put together! Is that far?

#1.2 JamesWP on 20 Jun 2005 - 21:39

I think the EU's still hellbent on reparations from the WWs, and they see poor Bill as the Germany they never punished enough.

(1 reply) #2 Knight' on 20 Jun 2005 - 21:41

I say rape em as hard as we can, they've done it for us for far too long.

#2.1 PCyr on 20 Jun 2005 - 23:59

What, did they hold a gun to your head and stop you from using Linux or OS X?

#3 DJROrion on 20 Jun 2005 - 22:31

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(3 replies) #4 Unwonted on 21 Jun 2005 - 13:50

If I were MS I'd tell them to switch to Linux and block all EU ip addresses from MS sites, including WU and Hotmail, for a period of one year.

It would be a nice, big "up yours" to a federation that is too power hungry even in its youth. Pretty obvious money grab, if you ask me.

#4.1 ichi on 21 Jun 2005 - 15:24

Seeing how several EU countries are already switching to linux, and seeing how MS is struggling to drive them back to Windows, what you're suggesting would be suicidal.
I mean, MS needs the EU market a lot more than the EU needs MS.

#4.2 Unwonted on 21 Jun 2005 - 18:59

It's not so much a matter of who needs whom, but what authority does the EU have to fine MS $608,800,000. To say "screw the EU" wouldn't be suicidal; it would be smart, since they are constantly subjected to obscene amounts of lawsuits when anyone can just switch to freaking linux.

#4.3 ichi on 22 Jun 2005 - 19:29

what authority does the EU have to fine MS $608,800,000.

Since they (MS) are making business in the EU, they have to comply with EU laws. They were found guilty and therefore punished. The fine is that hight because it must be somehow proportional to MS' incomings so it does actually serve as punishment (still paying $600M doesn't really hurt MS), else it would be cheaper for MS to ignore the laws and pay the fines than complying with them.

Also seeing how MS paid the fine instead of pulling their product from EU, I guess it's indeed a matter of need. Would they have paid anything if they're being sued by some small "unknown" country?

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