[CS-FSLUG] M$ fined 497 million dollars

[David Aikema]

On March 28, 2004 08:53 pm, Aaron Patrick Lehmann wrote:
> This seems a bit ridiculous.  I'm no fan of Microsoft, but fining them for
> prebundling software that most windows users are going to download anyway
> seems backward.  I did like the part about forcing them to open up the
> codecs, though.

Well, the reason that the users would download the software anyways would be 
that everyone else already has it (which would also be a good reason for 
content producers to use it)... basically it's the use of a monopoly in one 
area to force out competitors in a different area.

David