Comments on: EU eyes royalties squeeze for Microsoft

Software giant wants too much payback for the tech it must license to rivals under an antitrust order, an EU document reportedly says.

[Commander_Spock]

Who Said The CONCORDE Cannot Fly!

That this article states in part; "According to the Financial Times, the Commission understands that prices proposed by Microsoft would not "allow (rivals IBM, Sun Microsystems and Oracle) to develop products that would be viable from a business perspective..." What the EU needed most to be concerned about was to concentrate on their skills set and not try to influence the international playing field that is the software industry. Geez... It's not that the U.S. based Microsoft Corporation's behavior is anything but stellar; but, come on now--after almost three decades Microsoft's competitors--"IBM, Sun Microsystems and Oracle..." had enough time to enter the "international boxing ring" and this is not the time to run and hide behind "mummy and daddy" these companies need to stand up and throw back punches like prepared boxers would in a contest and not seek changes in the rules of the fight in the middle of it if things seems not to be going their way! Similarly, if the EU builds "quieter" CONCORDE (their skills set) then it will fly with the LINUX and OS/2 Operating Systems along with the Productivity Applications to show them the (EU) how!

[KTLA_knew]

Hmmm...

I wonder what having a beer with Commander Spock would be like...

[Christopher Hall]

Rubber baby buggy bumpers

Quote, Dave Barry: "Haha on that. Booger."

[FutureGuy]

You get what you pay for!!!

EU is such a lost cause, history, its sad in a way EU is turning into USSR soon after it helped disintegrate it. There is not even one EU company that outstanding, even Airbus is now seems on the verge of collapse.
If MS technology is not worth 5.95% of the cost of the product then don't license it as simple as that, if the cost of reverse engineering the protocols is less then 6% then why even complain just do that, you bunch of Moro*s (IBM, Sun and Oracle).

[suyts]

Outrageous

Incredible...I wish MS would offer a deal like that to me.... I'd make money the first day. I seem to recall that in our trade agreements, that we are not to abuse each others law. It is clearly a violation of law here to force a company to give up it's trade secrets for FREE!!!
I don't know what world the EU is living in. If the situation was reversed, say Mercedes forced to give up its designs and patents for free to say Ford. I bet we'd hear alot of europeans scream. Americans, call your congressman! I truly believe that we would be alot better off if MS and this country just didn't have anything to do with those knot-heads.