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How do you download a browser...
without a browser already on the OS? Do Windows users have to get browser CD's? Copy them on a thumbnail drive? Or even more inane, MS has to write and supply an non-browser app to download browsers for installation?

If so, who gets to pick? The EEC? Why would Windows users be the only ones who have to suffer this inconvenience?

However, this fits into the EEC's model that dominance is a negative end by itself. It wouldn't matter if MS charged $5 for Windows - if they have a dominant position, any action to reduce that dominance is justified.

Where that falls short though is that here, the EEC would be using a complaint against the browser to cripple a different market (OS.) Let's see if that is consistent with EEC law. It probably would be since the EEC is ruled by fiat and personality instead of written and documented law. Remember, this is on behalf of Opera. I'm sure if IE went away, all those IE users would have bought Opera (when they though they could charge for a browser) instead of Firefox.
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How do you download a browser...  hickum | 01/28/09
This is getting silly  SimonUK | 01/28/09
Legal?  Comnenus | 01/29/09
It's got nothing to do with the GPL.  SimonUK | 01/30/09
Decmocracy?  Bucky24 | 01/29/09
million ways  patibulo | 01/29/09
Right...  ccrashh2@... | 01/29/09
RE: Right, aiight  n0neXn0ne | 01/29/09
What?  ccrashh2@... | 01/29/09
From my understanding they're planning to force MS...  ye | 01/29/09
Did you just ...  n0neXn0ne | 01/29/09
If so, who gets to pick? The EEC?  deowll | 01/29/09
We will dream up something  visoot | 01/29/09
Price competitiveness?!?!  SimonUK | 01/30/09
Shaking down MS  P. Douglas | 01/28/09
Just like MS did in the 90's...  A Grain of Salt | 01/28/09
That couldn't happen...  SimonUK | 01/29/09
MS pulling out of Europe? Gosh, you're so silly!!!  InAction Man | 01/29/09
Profits Then Ballmer MUST pull out.  PMC-CON | 01/31/09
Clearly, the EU does not like Microsoft's ...  mwagner@... | 01/29/09
It's got nothing to do with that...  SimonUK | 01/30/09
Not a helpful comment ...  mwagner@... | 01/30/09
Simon -- Let The EC Prove that they aren't "stupid Europeans"  PMC-CON | 01/31/09
I Agree -- MS Should Dump the EU  PMC-CON | 01/31/09
When Competition Exists, Kill A Fighter?  clindhartsen | 01/28/09
Netscape...  SimonUK | 01/29/09
Well, guess what?  mwagner@... | 01/29/09
Well done...  SimonUK | 01/30/09
My point was that ...  mwagner@... | 01/30/09
Netscape's Bankruptcy ...  PMC-CON | 01/31/09
What happens when there is no necessity to change?  linuser | 01/29/09
The issue is that  GuidingLight | 01/29/09
No, EU forces Microsoft to let custmers choose...  hgh9mrp@... | 01/29/09
As I read the article ...  mwagner@... | 01/29/09
Ridiculous.  SimonUK | 01/30/09
The problem with that BLOAT ...  mwagner@... | 01/30/09
RE: MSFT: EU would force users to pick browser  stottosy@... | 01/29/09
Over 44% of firefox users are in Europe, less than 34% in North America  InAction Man | 01/29/09
re:RE: MSFT: EU would force users to pick browser  n0neXn0ne | 01/29/09
RE: MSFT: EU would force users to pick browser  xlinuks | 01/29/09
How about ...  johnfenjackson@... | 01/29/09
Government and force. Nice combination.  seosamh_z | 01/29/09
Opera is just jealous of Firefox  Joe_Raby | 01/29/09
I wonder  NStalnecker | 01/29/09
Finally, users get the choice...so what ?  josephrot@... | 01/29/09
Is The Browser Part of the Operating System?  n0neXn0ne | 01/29/09
RE: MSFT: EU would force users to pick browser  xlinuks | 01/29/09
RE: MSFT: EU would force users to pick browser  jinx101 | 01/29/09
Forced to choose.  kozmcrae | 01/29/09
IE HTML rendering engine IS part of the OS  Ralph Malph | 01/29/09
Yes,and that means that much more ...  mwagner@... | 01/29/09
You said ...  mwagner@... | 01/29/09
They get that "crapware" with Internet Explorer...  SimonUK | 01/30/09
This would solve what problem?!?  bbneo | 01/29/09
RE: MSFT: EU would force users to pick browser  mcraigw | 01/29/09
Wrong end of the stick...  SimonUK | 01/30/09
RE: MSFT: EU would force users to pick browser  jfreedle2@... | 02/11/09

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