Comments on: Microsoft submits antitrust proposal to EU

update If the European Commission decides the proposal is inadequate, the software giant could be fined up to $5 million daily.

Robin Hood Tactics : Economic 9/11

With all the apparent activities within the open source movement the world over one should wonder - are there not alternatives within the GPL framework to satisfy the EU's yearning to be software independent from US companies and to establish its own software industry as if the "Boston Tea Party" was of no consequence. It will appear that some "ways" of doing things are hard to change for some folks from a certain part of the world (America is part and parcel of the Americas);-) What if Washington and Moscow or even Beijing were to determine that there were no international norms to be complied with just like Hitler and his generals did during the last century what will be the EU's response? Why is the EU after dumbed down "work-in-progress" Operating System and Application Codes from a US based company headed by a geek whose own country's programmers finished 17th in an international computer programming contest that was held not so long ago! Why can't the EU just simply develop their own OSes and Applications. Americas Wake Up!

;-)

Robin Hood Tactics : Economic 9/11

With all the apparent activities within the open source movement the world over one should wonder - are there not alternatives within the GPL framework to satisfy the EU's yearning to be software independent from US companies and to establish its own software industry as if the "Boston Tea Party" was of no consequence. It will appear that some "ways" of doing things are hard to change for some folks from a certain part of the world (America is part and parcel of the Americas);-) What if Washington and Moscow or even Beijing were to determine that there were no international norms to be complied with just like Hitler and his generals did during the last century what will be the EU's response? Why is the EU after dumbed down "work-in-progress" Operating System and Application Codes from a US based company headed by a geek whose own country's programmers finished 17th in an international computer programming contest that was held not so long ago! Why can't the EU just simply develop their own OSes and Applications. Americas Wake Up!

;-)

[lgmbackman]

The EU vs MS is a very good read at:

http://www.worldlii.org/eu/cases/ECComm/2004/1.html

So read it and you will understand a bit more.

[lgmbackman]

The EU vs MS is a very good read at:

http://www.worldlii.org/eu/cases/ECComm/2004/1.html

So read it and you will understand a bit more.

Software "Patents" for Methods of Doing Business!

One may also find the below attached good reading in order to arrive at a datum and also a general understanding.

Software Patents for Methods of Doing Business?A Second Class Citizen No More:

http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/matters/matters-0012.html

Patent and Copyright Law:

http://www.patents.com/copyrigh.htm

;-)

Software "Patents" for Methods of Doing Business!

One may also find the below attached good reading in order to arrive at a datum and also a general understanding.

Software Patents for Methods of Doing Business?A Second Class Citizen No More:

http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/matters/matters-0012.html

Patent and Copyright Law:

http://www.patents.com/copyrigh.htm

;-)

[Catgic]

Issues remaining to be resolved? $5 Million of them!

Yes Ingrid, the ECComm ?still has issues remaining to be resolved.? Five million of them, as in $,$$$,$$$. Cha-Ching B-) JP

[Catgic]

Issues remaining to be resolved? $5 Million of them!

Yes Ingrid, the ECComm ?still has issues remaining to be resolved.? Five million of them, as in $,$$$,$$$. Cha-Ching B-) JP