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Originally Posted by kastorff
...The whole EU versus Microsoft thing is comical to me,
in how far the EU keeps going to achieve something that has nothing to
do with monopolies, but more to do with punishing Microsoft. Microsoft
keeps giving them what they ask for, but not what they want.
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Unfortunately, it's neither comical or hilarious. The EU wants the fines paid. A total disregard of EU competition law in the past by MicroSoft, requires a proportionally tough response. It may seem unreasonable, but not when taken in context of past behavior, and the scale of the infringement i.e. it's punishment.
It's also an attempt to mitigate the imbalance in the market.
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Think of a government insisting that Toyota not only ship a car with no built in engine, but offer installation of competitors' engines at
point of sale...
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I agree with Chrysantine. It's the wrong example since Toyota doesn't dominate the EU marketplace in the way Microsoft did and still does.