Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 26th Jan 2007 21:37 UTC
A coalition of rivals charged on Friday that Microsoft's new Vista operating system coming out next week will perpetuate practices found illegal in the European Union nearly three years ago. The group, which includes IBM, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Oracle and Red Hat, said its complaints made last year are yet to be addressed just days before Vista is due for release.
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RE[2]: This is getting old, EU...
by melkor on Sun 28th Jan 2007 02:06
in reply to "RE: This is getting old, EU..."
Member since:2006-12-16
If only I could give you extra mod points...this is the REAL issue. The US government is long know for political interference in non US countries, to ensure that US corporations get preferential [both economic and legal] treatment. This is why I'm a firm believer in that full economic sanctions by the EU need to be taken against the US. If only politicians had backbones...
Dave
Member since:
2006-06-03
The American Government put a lot of pressure on the EU not to do anything effective (like ban Microsoft etc..) so instead some politician came up with this compromise of Windows N. Now if the US Govt. were to get out of bed with the corporations...