EU extortion of Micosoft

Since when does government determine reasonable prices for access to a private enterprises software? If I were Microsoft I would simply stop selling my products in the EU until government got out of my business. Think about what that would mean for Europe for a minute. Perhaps then these EU bureaucrats would not be so darn cocky.

By the way, who gets the money from these fines? I am willing to bet it is not the companies that they claimed were being charge too much. I bet the money goes into the coffers of the EU bureaucracy.

These companies are free to not use Microsoft products if they think the fees are too high. I don’t think we need regional governments dictating prices to software developers.

Now we have Europe paying much lower fees to Microsoft then the rest of the world but yet the rest of the world’s software developers have to compete with Europe. That’s free enterprise?? Tell these fascist control freaks to go suck an egg.

EU fines Microsoft a record $1.3 billion - World business- msnbc.com

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Commission fined Microsoft a record $1.3 billion Wednesday for defying sanctions imposed on the software giant in 2004 for antitrust violations, far exceeding the original penalty.EU regulators said the company charged “unreasonable prices” until last October to software developers who wanted to make products compatible with the Windows desktop operating system.