More hilarity from the EU
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martin_hughes wrote:
'Ere, you're 'aving a giraffe, ain't you? That site don't do browsers! I think what the EU want is for Microsoft to supply Windows without a browser. Then, when you first start it, you can go and download the one you want, instead of using the default Internet Explorer. Of course, exactly how you easily download a competing browser without a browser installed could prove tricky.
Graham Bradshaw wrote:
Then, when you first start it, you can go and download the one you want, instead of using the default Internet Explorer.
Which in turn will lead to the next EU v MS lawsuit when it fails to work because FF changes its download URL and someone uses a DVD with the old one embedded or the proxy MS uses to avoid the moving target issue has its server rebooted. Personally. I'm waiting for the EU to sue MS because no one except EUcrats is buying the current N(o WMP) version of Windows.
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DaTxomin wrote:
Let's be honest
Yes, lets: this is extortion by the EU plain and simple and has nothing at all to do with technical issues. In addition we're talking about prosecuting anti competitiveness in a market where NO ONE CHARGES FOR THE PRODUCT. Think about that for a second then get back to me about honest and monopolies and EU bashing. I don't blame the EU any more than I blame any elected official for taking kickbacks or bribes, I blame the electorate, the EU isn't a dictatorship last time I looked.
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John C wrote:
In addition we're talking about prosecuting anti competitiveness in a market where NO ONE CHARGES FOR THE PRODUCT.
Of course that ignores the fact opinion that bundling IE with Windows is what caused Netscape to make Navigator free... :-\ In all seriousness, though. It does seem silly that Microsoft is being taken to task for doing something that every Linux distribution does (usually ships with Firefox) and no one bats an eyelash at it. For that matter, does Mac OS X ship with any other browser aside from Safari? Should the EU sue Apple as well?* Flynn *The answer is "of course not - Apple doesn't make enough money" ;P