Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Feb 2008 18:33 UTC, submitted by JJ
"Microsoft was fined a record 899 million euros (USD 1.35 billion) by the European Commission on Wednesday for using high prices to discourage software competition in the latest sanction in their long-running battle. The executive arm of the European Union said the U.S. software group defied a 2004 order from Brussels to provide the information on reasonable terms. Microsoft has now been fined a total of 1.68 billion euros by the EU for abusing its 95 percent dominance of PC operating systems through Windows."
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I don't know which reality you live in that this occurred.
I'm sure Andrew Tridgell and Jeremy Allison appreciated the help of all these programmers when they were reverse engineering the protocol by looking at the bytes going over the wire (that was sarcasm, by the way, in case you didn't realize). Oh wait, they didn't get any help.
If you want to spout bullshit like you just did, you better be able to back it up with trustworthy links stating what you just said. Which you won't be able to.
Not to mention that Microsoft developers who did this would be sued into the ground for divulging trade secrets.
In summary, you're a f--king dumbass sack of shit, and you're talking out of your ass.