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Hit Gates with such a fine already, that will change MS's behaviour!
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.


Maybe if the US hit Gates with a $10,000,000,000 personal fine then Bush would have been able to fund "No Child Left Behind" rather than impose a huge new tax on the public for a nebulous program which satisfies only the lobbiests while forcing local schools to cut the good things they were doing to meet the requirements of a federal unfunded mandate!
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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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