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So according to your theory of law...
..If a Eruopean company is charged with something in the US, they should not be held accountable of fined?..

Of couse they would be held accountable, under the established law and appeal process.
What's different here is that the Eurocrats are making this stuff up as they go along (how many of you knew 5 years ago that bundling WMP was illegal?) but more importantly, thay want to dictate the rules for future MS OS development.
This is a precedent.
The argument then goes that the EU is trying to control the business practices of one US company over another (Real, Sun etc).

Maybe the US should look at that Airbus thing, make them use propellers instead, in the name of competition and protecting the US flying public from those fly-by-wire evil doers.

More politics in technology I say.
It's fun.

Ministry of Media Players.

Joe
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The real MS problem goes unaddressed  bjbrock | 03/24/04
The problem with iyur argument is no one is forcing them to use MS.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/24/04
yea but he can't buy a dell without windows  JoeMama_z | 03/24/04
And nobody was forced to smoke Marlboros  IT_User | 03/24/04
Can't compare physical safety with data safety  vferrara | 03/25/04
Nobody is forcing me to buy Ford either...  NemesisNL | 03/25/04
waw !!!  Ardian Daka | 03/25/04
Me, sort of  tic swayback | 03/25/04
waw!!! II  NemesisNL | 03/25/04
Nobody is forcing me to buy Ford either...  seosamh_z | 03/25/04
Here is the picture you wanted.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/25/04
Apple users seem to think that works  vferrara | 03/25/04
No  NemesisNL | 03/26/04
You're kidding, surely?  Fred Fredrickson | 03/25/04
Regarding software EULAs  Shell_z | 03/25/04
EULAs  Update victim | 03/25/04
Because you didn't pay for it  Bill Weisgerber | 03/25/04
You have it exactlly 180 degrees backward.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/25/04
Eulas and liability  TokyoPete | 03/25/04
Expletive undeleted (NT)  Update victim | 03/25/04
Yes sir, as they say, the rubber is about to meet the road.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/24/04
So according to your theory of law...  B.O.F.H. | 03/24/04
Notice the lack of reply?  NemesisNL | 03/25/04
Just locker room bravado  Bill Weisgerber | 03/25/04
Priorities  tic swayback | 03/25/04
Makes no sense at all  Bill Weisgerber | 03/25/04
Marketing  tic swayback | 03/25/04
And the world is flat  Bill Weisgerber | 03/25/04
Because there was nothing worth replying too.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/25/04
So according to your theory of law...  seosamh_z | 03/25/04
Ne "theory" involved.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/25/04
Repeating nonsense  NemesisNL | 03/26/04
Gee, according to this  IT_User | 03/24/04
Are you not reading.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/25/04
As I understand it...  Richard Flude | 03/24/04
What is the issue here?  Bill Weisgerber | 03/25/04
What is the issue here?  rjones_z | 03/25/04
The issue is...  Richard Flude | 03/25/04
What a Load...  moodytx | 03/25/04
Newspapers don't share stories?  bknabe@... | 03/26/04

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