[extropy-chat] EU judgement goes agaisnt Microsoft

[Dan Clemmensen]

Adrian Tymes wrote:

>--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>><avatar at renegadeclothing.com.au> wrote:
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>>>Microsoft: half billion euro fine and must offer
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>>non media player
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>>>windows. EU judgement.
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>>I hear that the software security companies are
>>launching legal action
>>against Microsoft in Justice Jackson's court to
>>prevent Microsoft from
>>closing any of the many and various backdoors,
>>repairing any of the
>>security flaws, which make the Windows user market
>>so lucrative for
>>their anti-virus, firewall, and privacy software. If
>>making your
>>operating system secure is an anti-competetive act,
>>why aren't they
>>suing the pants off of Linus?
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>On the chance that was serious: they never had a
>chance to set up said industry for Linux.  They'll
>probably be laughed out of court even on Microsoft,
>since they're just offering services that many people
>have sued Microsoft to provide in the first place.
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>Besides, Microsoft has lots of cash, and they might
>think it less costly to just settle.  Linus doesn't
>have the same amounts, and he's not subject to the
>US legal system (being not a US resident).
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Linus Torvalds is a resident of the state of Califonia, which is
(arguably) part of the US.

However, Linus does not run a compony which controls the
content of an operating system, and is therefore not accountable for
the capabilities of any particular computer that is running Linux.

This is in stark contrast to M$, which uses its monopoly power
to coerce computer manufacturers to deliver computers with
M$ operating systems.