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MS Broke the Law
Microsoft was judged, by a US court, to hold a monopoly. By definition this means they will pay big fines when they abuse their position and break the laws in any country.

The following are the tip of a very large iceberg ? incidents of foreign companies who, when caught, admitted they were wrong and paid up ? in America.

One thing I would ask you to consider: Europeans did not make a big fuss about any of these.

In Philadelphia the Justice Department charged SGL Carbon Aktiengesellschaft (of Germany) with violating the Sherman Act. In addition to the $135 million fine against the corporation, the CEO agreed to pay a personal $10 million fine -- the largest antitrust fine against an individual.

Dutch chemicals group Akzo Nobel Chemicals pleaded guilty to charges of having fixed prices in the United States and of having conspired to divide up the market for monochloroacetic acid. The company agreed to pay a $12 million fine.

AstraZeneca (Corporate HQ in London, UK) agreed to a $355 million settlement in civil and criminal charges related to the prostate cancer drug Zoladex.

French chemicals group Rhodia (based in Paris) pleaded guilty in a Montana court for having illegally stored rubble containing phosphates is to pay a US fine of $18 million dollars for pollution at a site in Montana as well as clean-up costs.

There are many other examples ? try using a search engine next time.
Posted by: Stephen Wheeler   Posted on: 07/02/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Sorry suckers knew they were too guilty!  Jeff Spicoli | 07/02/04
Oh, come on, you could do a lot better here...  quietLee | 07/02/04
was yer basic trolling..  Jeff Spicoli | 07/02/04
LOL  quietLee | 07/02/04
bah... the money is meaningless  ryusen | 07/02/04
nope  V Sanders | 07/04/04
I hope this doesn't effect Secure Computing  Mike Cox | 07/02/04
affect, mike, affect (nt)  eLurker | 07/02/04
Good for you Mike. (NT)  P. Douglas | 07/02/04
if you switch to toast and deli sandwiches ...  oldskool | 07/02/04
8.0  WhoIsDaMan | 07/02/04
An unsecure 7.0  AbsolutelyNot | 07/02/04
pathetic...  DarbyOhara | 07/06/04
I've said all along  rapson | 07/02/04
A settlement, yes...  Anton Philidor | 07/02/04
One thing  Jeff Spicoli | 07/02/04
The law must be specific and the penalty appropriate  Anton Philidor | 07/02/04
has the law ever been this way though  V Sanders | 07/04/04
Even felons have some rights returned  Anton Philidor | 07/04/04
True, but  Linux User 147560 | 07/04/04
Product design  Rick_K | 07/03/04
Control of product design  Anton Philidor | 07/03/04
companies should retain control over the design of their products  NemesisNL | 07/03/04
Please read what I wrote before disagreeing.  Anton Philidor | 07/03/04
MS should not have paid  Enterprise Analyst | 07/02/04
You just don't get it  mabricen | 07/02/04
rose with new name  Rembrandt Pussyhorse | 07/02/04
Could be  AbsolutelyNot | 07/02/04
MS Broke the Law  Stephen Wheeler | 07/02/04
Hit Gates with such a fine already, that will change MS's behaviour!  oldskool | 07/02/04
Well, hold on there...  quietLee | 07/02/04
Stop smoking crack  Bill_gates_Is_SATAN | 07/02/04
Glad to see you obliged  Expatriate US Geek | 07/02/04
Why bother?  Rick_K | 07/03/04
Correction to you  AbsolutelyNot | 07/02/04
$600M To Fund Further Fight Against MS Scams  claytonmuhler | 07/02/04
They better not spend it at all!  amicus_curious | 07/02/04
ummm  eLurker | 07/02/04
Yep  quietLee | 07/02/04
OOOOO, THAT HADDA HURT!!  Eggs Ackley_z | 07/02/04
I got that right here!  amicus_curious | 07/02/04
recent payouts are dipping into almost 10% of the reserve ...  oldskool | 07/02/04
pocket change  V Sanders | 07/04/04
Not really true  Linux User 147560 | 07/04/04
Makes sense  John L. Ries | 07/02/04
Even better than that  amicus_curious | 07/02/04
Pitiful EU  FilledOut | 07/02/04
EU  Enterprise Analyst | 07/02/04
An American living under the repressive jackboot of the EU tyranny  Expatriate US Geek | 07/02/04
Wrong again!  Linux User 147560 | 07/03/04
And you have lived in the EU for how long?  mlindl | 07/04/04
If you read my post above yours  Linux User 147560 | 07/04/04
A drop in the bucket....  Stewart Cannon | 07/02/04
Microsoft didn't pay the fine yet...  SBArbeit | 07/06/04

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