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July 11, 2006
Eurobrigands Loot Microsoft
Posted by Dave Blount at July 11, 2006 5:12 PM
As moonbattery continues to degrade the fabric of civilization in Western Europe, it is becoming questionable whether it will always be possible to conduct business across the Atlantic. A 2004 European Union ruling demands that Microsoft hand over key computer code to makers of rival products. This is similar to demanding that General Motors turn over free cars to rival carmakers.
Naturally Microsoft has hesitated to slit its own wrists so that its competition can lap up the blood for nourishment. To punish such intransigence, the EU is now threatening fines as high as €2 million per day (about $2,555,000), backdated to December 15, if Microsoft doesn't knuckle under. If the company is still holding out at the end of the month, fines would go up to €3 million per day. This American (i.e., not European) company was fined €497 million by the EU in March 2004.
Europe's dictatorial bureauweenies have also demanded that Microsoft sell a version of Windows without Media Player, which Microsoft would certainly do without coercion if there were any sane reason for consumers to prefer it.
It's bad enough that communist China pirates our extremely valuable intellectual property. The EU is worse, self-righteously demanding that we hand it over voluntarily, then slapping us with fines if we don't comply fast enough.
There may not be much honor among thieves, but a thief who knows he's a thief is at least more honorable than the sanctimonious moonbats running the EU.
